“Because it is not lasting, let us not fall into the cynic’s trap and call it an illusion. Duration is not a test of true or false… Validity need have no relation to time, to duration, to continuity. It is on another plane, judged by other standards. It relates to the actual moment in time and place… The sunrise shell has the eternal validity of all beautiful and fleeting things.”
—Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift From the Sea, p. 76
