Within a mirage, the interactions
of two seem to produce another
Relations, observations, yet no proof
of the intrinsic, the vital
From the view of time
no hindering, no wasting
Image credit: Graham, Joseph, Newman, William, and Stacy, John, 2008, The geologic time spiral—A path to the past (ver. 1.1): U.S. Geological Survey General Information Product 58, poster, 1 sheet. Available online at http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/2008/58/.