Treasure from Vijaya's Archives!!

See below a quote which was on her desk at work for years and posted here with a hope to preserve that through this blog!!

A digital image of an oil painting on paper.. also from her Archives!! so carefully preserved. You can see it from the edges.. her roots .. palm fronds swaying gently in the breeze....Upon reflection into the yesteryears, the proverbial quote...

                                 … by Carl Sagan

"If we look at the universe in the large, we find something astonishing. First of all, we find a universe that is exceptionally beautiful, intricately and subtly constructed. Whether our appreciation of the universe is because we are a part of that universe – whether, no matter how the universe were put together, we would have found it beautiful – is a proposition to which I do not pretend to have an answer. But there is no question that the elegance of the universe is one of its most remarkable properties. At the same time, there is no question that there are cataclysms and catastrophes occurring regularly in the universe and on the most awesome scale. There are, for example, quasar explosions which probably decimate the nuclei of galaxies. It seems likely that every time a quasar explodes more than a million worlds are obliterated and countless forms of life, some of them intelligent, are utterly destroyed. This is not the traditional benign universe of conventional religiosity in the West, constructed for the benefit of living and especially of human beings. Indeed, the very scale of the universe – more than a hundred billion galaxies, each containing more than a hundred billion stars – speaks to us of the inconsequentiality of human events in the cosmic context. We see a universe that does not exclude a traditional Western or Eastern god, but that does not require one either”

Preserve the quote, the Universe, the painting, freeze that memory, the breeze....