‘Imagination reveals the possibilities beyond the edge of our reality’
LR Knost
Is imagination more important that knowledge?
I can tell you, because I trust the information I have read on reputable sites that the geology around Kalbarri is some of the oldest on the planet.
That the Kalbarri National Park spans 1,830 km² and contains breathtaking stretches of exposed Tumblagooda sandstone 1,500 to 3,500 metres thick, found nowhere else on earth.
I can tell you that it dates between 400 to 500 million years…and, just to blow your imagination off its hinges, it is sitting directly on rock that was around during the Proterozoic eon – a-billion-year span marking the appearance of oxygen on Earth.
This landscape gives meaning to the word ‘ancient’.
But when you are walking, in awe, through one of nature’s 400,000,000-year-old masterpieces you wonder, how did geologists arrive at these facts?
How did they think to match the etchings on the prehistoric rock to the earliest footprints of marsupials?
How did the aesthetic magnificence of layers of brown, red, orange, pink, beige and all shades in between, indicate to them that they must have been formed by different rivulets depositing sediment at different times? How….?
Imagination helps us to create knowledge beyond what we call reality.
Imagination & knowledge go hand in hand, don’t you think?