With its vacillating oceans and laconic mountains suffused with green, white and brown, inciting equanimity in us. Later, we erected grandiose domes and numinous cathedrals, glass armored skyscrapers soaring high into the stainless sky. We drove copious cars, omnibuses and trains, the reminders of our mechanical routines, towards nowhere. There is a surge of people, tumultuous, bustling on platforms and in the streets. Life.