HUMANS, as we are realizing in increasingly painful detail, have an outsized impact on this planet. Our general pretension that the planet and everything on it is ours to consume or modify for our comfort and convenience is beginning to have consequences we can watch unfold in real time in the form of rising seas and ever more bizarre and violent weather patterns.

Every so often, however, Earth does something on its own to remind us that we and our imagined power are completely inconsequential, and all it would take to wash a lot of us off the planet like a bad case of dandruff is for a couple of the world's natural rhythms to fall into harmony for a few moments.

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