Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Perspective

One of my favorite 3rd grade facts: There is no new water on the planet and there never will be. Water that the dinosaurs drank, peed and that ran back into the earth, evaporated into the atmosphere and fell as rain. This has continued, the water being recycled again and again, including our own body's waters. Proving once again that there really is nothing new under the sun.

Now that's some serious perspective -
and responsibility.

Harry Nillson presents another version, a bit more people-centric, but no less true, in an excerpt from the 1971 movie 'The Point':

2 comments:

  1. stella - you posted this on FB on a day it came in quite handy - thank you. This movie? a 16 yr old favorite - watched many times. It still holds up well. thanks for dropping it in my ear. Hope all's well with you n' yours in the 'new domicile arrangement'.

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