One day the Earth will be dust. They do not understand why everything must disintegrate into lower forms. These forms will also disintegrate. Finally, everything will have disintegrated into its component parts This will be part of new forms. Plants feed on the dust of stones.
Worms feed on the dust of men.
This is wrong. Time passes because entropy increases. We prefer to see time as we do, because we are living beings, living on entropy. We may see time in other ways, in other directions. But this is not useful, for we are beings of entropy.