I heard a great story once It gets across the point if the earth really is alive
If you were interviewing a butterfly Standing on the branch of a sequoia tree
Now, a butterfly lives only for a few days And a sequoia tree can live for over a thousand years
If you were to ask the butterfly: Do you perceive the object on which your standing is being alive? The butterfly would say: of course not. I've been here all my life Which is all of five days, and the tree hasn't done a thing
Well, it's the same problem with the human being If you were to ask a person Perhaps one that's lived for a hundred years They perceive the earth, which is really 5 billion years old, is being alive They would say: of course not. I've been here my whole life, and it hasn't done a thing.
The earth really is alive The earth really is alive