There are more trees on earth than stars in the Milky Way.
This has been my mantra lately. The thought that pulls me out of my head and into the sky, out of my tiny world and into the big picture. It’s true: there are a staggering 3 trillion trees on our planet and just a couple billion stars in our galaxy.
This mantra takes me up + away while grounding me in the moment. Anywhere I am, at any time, I can look to the tree line, to the sky for perspective, for celestial confirmation.
A few other thoughts for heading up + away:
- comet tails can be millions of miles long and may also be the reason water exists on earth.
- while we only see one side of our one moon, Saturn has 82 moons.
- the light we see around us, right now, is from almost 14 billion years ago. It took that long to get here.