“You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.”

— Jacob Bronowski

This was taken on the side of a decaying boxcar at the Railroad Museum at Snoqualmie, Washington.

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