Nothing is ever at rest – wood, iron, water, everything is alive, everything is raging, whirling, whizzing, day and night and night and day, nothing is dead, there is no such thing as death, everything is full of bristling life, tremendous life, even the bones of the crusader that perished before Jerusalem eight centuries ago.

~ Mark Twain, Three Thousand Years Among the Microbes

Milky Way and Mt. Baker – photo by Mirwais Azami Photography used with permission