"The generations that have gone on before you—whither are they fled? "

"The generations that have gone on before you—whither are they fled? And those round whom in life circled the fairest and the loveliest of the land, where now are they?

Profit by their example, O people, and be not of them that are gone astray. Others ere long will lay hands on what ye possess, and enter into your habitations. Incline your ears to My words, and be not numbered among the foolish."

-Bahá'u'lláh, Gleanings From the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh,CXXIII, p. 261

Walker Evans

Library of Congress