You’ve seen it before, haven’t you? Floating around on the ether.
Tell me you’ve seen it?
A startle of light.
That’s the only way it can be described.
It tells the secrets of the universe.
Or at least this galaxy.
The earth spins around in space, you see. The stars are distant suns.
And when you think about the earth, do you think it’s a spaceship, that we are hurtling through the black vacuum of space?
Or is it an ecosystem of itself?
The Sahara desert is a graveyard of ancient plankton. It used to be a sea that dried up, and the sand is the old seabed.
Five thousand years old, it is said. Every day at noon, the winds lift the sand particles, really the ancient plankton particles, into the air.
And carries the particles over the globe we call earth to the Amazon rainforest, where they melt into the millions of raindrops that saturate the earth in that part of the world. The ancient plankton particles contain iron and essential minerals for life, for fertilisation, for the rapid growth of the thick undergrowth in the Amazon.
A whole entire world, yet all of its parts conspire to create one heaving, breathing being.
Do you think the earth breathes?
Ocean Bream 