Chief Seattle, 1954. It's all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. Thomas Berry, 1988.
Poetry is just the universe talking to itself in a way that human beings can understand.
Perhaps the most startling photograph in the history of humankind was the photo of the Earth from outer space. It is an inter-connected system of waterways, shinning like a gem in the cosmos. It is, we could now see, a tiny organism covered with a thin gorgeous blue membrane. Physicists, astronomers, geologists and others have now discovered and uncovered much of the story of how this blue planet came to be. It is a magnificent and mysterious story - the creation of the universe and the subsequent evolution of the Earth with its systems of life.