American Idyll

yes, the river knows

Sunday, November 05, 2006

We Are Like Butterflies Who Flutter For A Day And Think It Is Forever



Part of the resistance to Darwin derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of millenia, much less the aeons.
What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long?
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.
--Carl Sagan

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