This is Planet Earth

Tonight I watched the Planet Earth documentary on CBC. I had not seen it before, and so I have no idea how far along the series is, but the section tonight on deserts was breathtaking. The high-definition beauty of this show was a sublime illustration of geological time. By that I guess I mean my own smallness and ephemerality was brought out again. Watching the sand slowly erroding these huge rock forms, seeing the forlorn spikes that once were composite pieces of plateaus. I can't conceive of that amount of time, and yet that's what it has taken to sculpt whole lands into these abstract statues in the middle of the desert.

We are small and our time here is brief.
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