A View on Scarcity

It's all there before us and none of it within our reach

Taken from a plane somewhere over the great middle of the United States on a trip sometime in my past.

How often do we get this view, a chance to see the world stretched out beneath us? A patchwork of geometry, the forced order imposed by humans but a tattoo on the vast body of the earth with its blistered rashes of mountain ranges, crater-pocked deserts…