Still We Wonder, Still We Yearn

This graphic juxtaposes the painting “Allegoria Della Vita Umana,” (Allegory of Human Life) by Guido Cagnacci (1601–1663), which presents a beautiful woman contemplating youth, time, transience, mortality, and eternity (symbolized by the medieval ouroboros, a snake continuously renewing itself by feeding on its own tail, positioned by Cagnacci to suggest a halo), with a much later vision.

     Today our contemplations are more scientific …

                                                                                    Informed by data …

                                                                                                                       Debated by experts …

Yet our fundamental nature, created eons ago, still wonders, still yearns …

Even though we have forgotten what it is we wonder about and yearn for!

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