Tide pool

After recounting many great minds and souls from human history, from St. Augustine to Einstein, Steinbeck writes, Each of them, in his own tempo and with his own voice, discovered and reaffirmed with astonishment the knowledge that all things are one thing, and that one thing is all things, plankton, 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.

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Its surface carries a small inverted moon.

Tide pools form where erosion creates a depression capable of retaining seawater after waves recede.

Differences in rock strength, fallen fragments, and weathered pits may all provide a beginning.

Once the hollow holds water, salt chemistry, biological activity, and occasional abrasion continue changing its interior.