One of the humbling takewaways from this book is how insignificant we human beings are - how brief our time on earth has been
compared to all of nature.
‘This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.‘
🧵 1/ Perhaps you know this feeling: unpleasant current events come thick and fast, #doom & #gloom & #ecogrief can almost paralyse us. What's really good then: immersing yourself in #deepTime, shifting perspectives. What was it like on this #planet between the ice ages and the greenhouses? Why was the #earth never empty even when it looked desolate? And how does #evolution work?