Nature

Moves so slowly that our own human concerns can often be made to seem irrelevant

by Allegra Rosenberg

The natural world we live within moves so slowly that our own human concerns can often be made to seem irrelevant — but when nature changes quickly, either through natural disaster or our own anthropogenic disruptions, cataclysm beckons.

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