Day 109 - "Eternity in an hour"

To see a world in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

William Blake

Beauty is unbearable, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. Albert Camus

After an eternity of seeking,
the sudden threshold of seeing and finding
leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief.
I was born to see.
Joy Page

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away.
We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.
Li Bai


Time is but the stream I go fishing in.

I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.

It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead.

It is going on all the time.

We are in it now.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

P.S. Some Irrelevant Facts:

• The Perito Moreno glacier is bigger than Buenos Aires. It is a 250 km2 [97 sq mi] ice formation, 30 km [19 mi] in length, with an average height of 74 m [240 ft] above the surface of the water, and a total ice depth of 170 metres [558 ft].
• It is unaffected by the global warming.
• The blue color of ice has to do with the optical effect of light reflection.

P.S.S. Some Relevant Facts:

• The thunder of icebergs separating from the glacier is a mesmerizing sound.
• Walking on ice feels somewhat like diving. Curiosly enough, nobody really talks. The glacier is awe-inspiring.
• The adjacent forest provides most spectacular views of the glacier through the trees.