“Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing in its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity, compounded with an unconscious recognition of his lineage.”
—Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us
The past and future do not exist and are only concepts used to describe the real, isolated, and changing present. This conventional model presents a number of difficult philosophical problems, and seems difficult to reconcile with currently accepted scientific theories such as the theory of relativity.
—Wikipedia