4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.
I just heard this referenced in a study book about science fiction. From Ecclesiastes, an almost secular book in the Bible. A bit of humility that humans used to have in abundance. Now we think we know everything, or at least so we’ll keep going, and eventually know everything. Icarus tried to warn us too, but we didn’t listen.