Memories
Everything is equally old on this planet. Some things just have longer memories.
Mike Stone
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Everything is equally old on this planet. Some things just have longer memories.
Mike Stone's two lines make a quiet but surprising claim: nothing on Earth is older than anything else. A mountain, a mayfly, a person, a pebble in your pocket all come from the same planet, and so all of them are exactly as old as the world itself. What separates them is not age but memory.
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