︎︎︎ The End
“How long would it take to recover lost ground and restore Eden to the way it must have gleamed and smelled the day before Adam appeared? Could nature ever obliterate all our traces? How would it undo our monumental cities and public works, and reduce our myriad
plastics and toxic synthetics back to benign, basic elements? Or are some so unnatural that they're indestructible?
And what of our finest creations — our architecture, our art, our many manifestations of spirit? Are any truly timeless, at least enough so to last until the sun expands and roasts our Earth to a cinder?
And even after that, might we have left some faint, enduring mark on the universe; some lasting glow, or echo, of Earthly humanity; some interplanetary sign that once we were here?”
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
“How long would it take to recover lost ground and restore Eden to the way it must have gleamed and smelled the day before Adam appeared? Could nature ever obliterate all our traces? How would it undo our monumental cities and public works, and reduce our myriad
plastics and toxic synthetics back to benign, basic elements? Or are some so unnatural that they're indestructible?
And what of our finest creations — our architecture, our art, our many manifestations of spirit? Are any truly timeless, at least enough so to last until the sun expands and roasts our Earth to a cinder?
And even after that, might we have left some faint, enduring mark on the universe; some lasting glow, or echo, of Earthly humanity; some interplanetary sign that once we were here?”
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
2020 — ongoing
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