Sunrise

Another sunrise across the mighty Atlantic Ocean. While the ocean can have it's moments of beauty, it is by nature lacking in any degree of complexity. Millions of tourists flock to the shores to see just that --shores. A strip of land bordering the sea altogether just a few hundred yards wide, followed by water stretching to the horizon. For all of the tens of thousands of miles of coastline on our planet, the scene changes but little. And so humanity flocks there to sit or stand slackjawed, hypnotized by the incessant sound of the waves crashing, or just sloshing, on the shore.
A few million years ago our evolutionary ancestors crawled out of just such a scene. Good riddance I say. They crawled out and headed straight for the hills where some real progress could be made.