do you ever imagine what it was like hundreds or thousands of years ago for mankind...when all the lands were green with trees and the water was crystal blue in most places? to look up at the sky and see nothing but thousands and thousands and thousands of stars. those strange night when the moon seems so close to the earth that it looks like they will collide. their first solar eclipse. the first time a tornado appeared. the first lightning storm. hail? a category 3 hurricane. hell, the first time it rained.

just a rambling i just wrote down because i saw the most beautiful sunset yesterday--the sun was so perfect and looked so big that you could actually look at it without squinting your eyes.



[Edited 9/15/06 7:04am]

I do wonder about that. Im so glad I didnt grow up in the city so I got to experience some nature. Well quite a lot actually. You could see stars at night, for a start!

I really miss it

I do think about this quite often. It's easy to drift away and wonder what their lives were like and what they were thinking of when they looked at this beautiful and terrible world.

I think about it often, how scared we must have been of the unknown, a time of discovery. A time where wisdom and old age were law and power. I hate to think of knowledge we once had that has been lost and as yet remains undescovered. The bliss of ignorance, peace, and strong family amd community values. The world being massive and unchartered, yet small and confined to foot travel with much of the surface unreachable.

Take me there, for a while. I might think about this as I commute home!

i think about this too sometimnes. actually, i wonder if our descendants will even have certain types of plants and animals around to enjoy. the extinction rate is accelerating