Man is related... inextricably to all reality, known and unknowable.. [P]lankton, a shimmering phosphorescence on the sea and the spinning planets and an expanding universe, all bound together by the elastic string of time. It is advisable to look from the tide pool to the stars and then back to the tide pool again.

Sea of Cortez, Chapter 21 (p. 217), Paul P Appel, Publisher. 1982