The rock, the river, and the vicissitudes of land and sea

The earth has a story. You read it in the stone, just as you read it in a leaf, and you read it in the clouds, just as you read it on the surface of water. The leaf was once a stone, and the clouds were some sea water. And the earth tells its story, and retells it from time to time. A leaf will become a stone, and the clouds will return to the sea again. The mountain peaks tell us that they were o...