Three Hundred and Seventy-Five Million Years
Photo by Chantal Bilodeau
It’s here, at the edge of the world, that human vulnerability is most apparent, our thin layer of skin a poor protection against the formidable forces shaping the earth. It’s also here, at the edge of the world, that the stories of times long gone can be most easily read in the landscape: Devonian fossils, colliding continents, glacial retreat… But the memory of these violent upheavals is softened by the sound of the waves, a veil of mist, and the light falling just so. When the future is uncertain, awe is a powerful antidote to fear.