The natural world consists of symbols that are at once permanent, yet everchanging - waters move, earth shifts, light transforms, but water, earth, and light retain their immutable characteristics throughout all time.

“He laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be moved forever and ever.” Ps 104:5 NHEB “The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. He caused me to pass by them all around: and look, there were very many in the open valley; and look, they were very dry. He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I answered, “Lord God, you know.”” Ezek 37:1-3 NHEB “He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”” Luke 19:40 NHEB