Human Humility (lack thereof)

'The sea is patient.  It has outlived countless species and will outlive countless more, ours among them. Among the things it might be able to teach us, on the off chance that we’re willing to learn, is that the life of a species, like that of an individual, is completed by death, not erased by it, and that its value is measured by the beauty and wisdom it experiences and creates, not by the crasser measurements of brute force and brute endurance.'

from:

 http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.fr/2015/10/the-patience-of-sea.html

Incredible piece.