This grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is
never all dried at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor ever rising.
Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and
continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
-- John Muir, American Naturalist (1838-1914)
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop iped and
dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other
stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears
as an infinite storm of beauty....
