Elemental

The setting sun illuminates the sky, and the clouds, formed from the ocean, which rolls in against the shore at Lennox Head. The mountains in the distance are in one of the few remaining pockets of rain forest; most was destroyed in the 19th century. Earth and rock, air holding vapour, water bearing salt, all lit and fed by the fire 93 million miles away, and all supporting life, which in its turn makes more rain. Well, that's probably enough ecophilosophy for one evening (in Old, or morning in New, South Wales).