In the artificial world of cities and towns, often we forget the true nature of this planet Earth, which is only an insignificant speck of cosmic dust, revolving in infinite space; we forget the long vistas of its history, in which the existence of the race of Man has occupied but a mere moment of Time.
As Sir Thomas Browne puts it—"The created world is but a small parenthesis in Eternity: on a lesser scale, man's world is but a small parenthesis in terrestial time."
