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> They exist so that people can enjoy them No. They exist because they exist. It's a privilege that we get to appreciate them. We can't seem to lose the notion that the universe was created for us. When the earth is a barren ball of rock and humanity is long-gone, maybe someone out there will notice the irony in it all. > I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away." |
The Universe simply exists. It's not guaranteed that any part of the Universe will be part of a park.