The persistence of life: Here on Earth it will try to exist anywhere it can. It's hard to find a place where nothing at all can live on Earth. It seems miraculous to me that anything can exist, let alone thrive, in the lava deserts of Hawai'i. But things do. Not only exist, but thrive. And this life begins almost as soon as the rock has cooled. Green things begin to happen, peep out of the blackness, and begin to take root and live. As if by will. To begin to make the blackness green again.

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