Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”
— Susan Sontag, At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
Time Exists
Tag: Universe
Neither the spider has planned for the leaf nor the leaf for the spider—and yet there they are, an accidental pendulum propelled by the same forces that cradle the moons of Jupiter in orbit, animated into this ephemeral early-morning splendor by eternal cosmic laws impervious to beauty and indifferent to meaning, yet replete with both to the bewildered human consciousness beholding it.”
— Maria Popova, Figuring
Lisa Marie Blair 