THE COLLEGE

00:01 --> 00:05 [Wind blowing]

00:06 --> 00:10 [Birds chirping]

00:12 --> 00:16 [Ambient, atmospheric music begins playing]

00:22 --> 00:31 Narrator: It was in the long stillness, the great quiet, the sunset country stretched out before you.

00:34 --> 00:39 The idle Earth settled for a breath.

00:39 --> 00:46 You saw the world in its naked immensity, a thousand Earths stacked on one another.

00:46 --> 00:47 Shifting.

00:47 --> 00:49 Sliding.

00:49 --> 00:51 Bursting into the present.

00:51 --> 00:55 The wonder of it.

00:57 --> 01:05 Traces of time — dust, ground, and pressed to stone — a testament to what is passed,

01:05 --> 01:09 what was, and is still.

01:09 --> 01:16 Cradled and crumbled, you hold it: That stone-fixed moment.

01:16 --> 01:24 Its circuitous path, leading up through the abyss of time, to you.

01:24 --> 01:33 This Montana field, this summer of study, chasing light, your own charted path.

01:33 --> 01:37 Where what you carry with you is earned.

01:37 --> 01:42 And that which lies beneath your feet reveals itself.

01:44 --> 01:47 Its secrets.

01:47 --> 01:49 Its place in time.