The glory of the sun is violent and uninflected; its features are all flames and its sounds are all explosions. The Sun is so loud, like a million bombs all the time, that fine-spun sounds cannot be heard, like birds wading or figs tumbling or the muttering of mathematicians.Things That Are by Amy Leach (2012)
But the energy density of life is greater by a factor of 10,000.
Image from Mundus subterraneus by Athanasius Kircher (1665)
