the conquest of time

All the civilisations want what they can't have the conquest of time.They build higher and grander to escape mortality.It never works.There's always an ending.Cities with their markets, temples,palaces and tombs are simply abandoned and that great leveller,Mother Nature,close in,strangling the place with vegetation,covering it with desert sand.It might seem,then,that's all for nothing but that's entirely wrong.All these ruins,all these remains are monuments to human creativity,to human ambitions,human hopes.Monuments to shaping hands and shaping minds.Monuments to humanity itself.