A role of clouds

Four years ago, I cruised the Pacific Ocean from Tokyo to Australia. For a couple of days, I saw nothing but water in every direction, and felt that the ship we were in was just floating out to the Ocean.  They said the bottom of the sea reaches a depth of a few thousands meters.  It just made me amazed to imagine how much water on the earth exists.  At the same time, it made me convinced that it required this much water to keep order and balance of the earth.

The sun shines directly on the surface of massive amount of water.  It warms up the water, and make vapors to raise high above to the sky and it makes invisible water curtain.  When it reaches at a few thousands in height, it is cooled down and become clouds. 

Half of the entire earth is covered with clouds, and those make rain here and there.  I have seen it rained from the airplane, and it seemed like ‘Thunder Fairly’ is watering around using sprinkling pot. 

At the same time, the relationship between the clouds and the earth is similar to that of men and women.  The clouds are men and the earth is women.  The clouds call for the rain and nurture the new life.  Looking in that way, the nature is made to be a stage for an intercourse to bring new lives into world.

The water is vaporized by heat from the sun after heavy rain.  Photo by Yu Nozaki