Time is the river. We are the islands. Time washes around us and flows away and with it flow fragments of our lives. So, little by little, each island shrinks.But where, who can say, down the long stream of time, are our eroded days deposited?

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Edwin Way Teale was a 19th-century American naturalist, photographer & writer. Edwin Way Teale was an American naturalist, photographer and writer. Teale's works serve as primary source material documenting environmental conditions across North America from 1930–1980. Read more on Wikipedia →

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  • Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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