What would the world be like without humans?

Goign back to Baraka, a world without humans is unimaginable. However, evolution mght still have occured. Humans created the "world". How it is, how it runs, we control what happens. Without us the Earth would be lucious in trees, animals and general abundance. There would be a feeling of sereneness and quiet and untouched beauty. There would be so much harmony among nature, but it makes me wonder whether humans have really regulated or decreased the value of life on Earth? Maybe we made the world a better place in the end. Showed animals different behaviours and ways of adapting? Trying to think about how everything would be without any aid of humans throughout all of history is mind-boggling. I can't comprehend how different it would be. LIfe would have a different meaning and effect. It makes me think about things in the same way that i ponder space and the universe and life and death. but i think i see it differently. The universe is full of possibilities for me and the logicality of life and evolution is just so interesting. I think i could lie and stare at the stars and just think about everyhting forever. I liek to think about things and think my life through. It gets rid of my emotions but thinkning about whats beyond us and our life is so infinite and quizzical. I can't fathom how we all fit together and that's why i love puzzles and challenges. Quantum Physics and the universe and scentific things about life is absolutely fascinating and the sociology of the worl is also fascinating. How people can BELIEVE in something that is not there? How you can feel wind but what is it? i could ask so many questions...

What would it be like? What would IT be like? wowwwww...

DEFINITION: In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic still life painting commonly executed by Northern European painters in Flanders and the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The term vanitas itself refers to the arts, learning and time. The word is Latin, meaning "emptiness" and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of vanity. Ecclesiastes 1:2 from the Bible is often quoted in conjunction with this term. The Vulgate (Latin translation of the Bible) renders the verse as Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. The verse is translated as Vanity of vanities; all is vanity by the King James Version of the Bible, and Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless by the New International Version of the Bible.
Paintings executed in the vanitas style are meant as a reminder of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, encouraging a sombre world view.
Common vanitas symbols include skulls, which are a reminder of the certainty of death; rotten fruit, which symbolizes decay like ageing; bubbles, which symbolize the brevity of life and suddenness of death; smoke, watches, and hourglasses, which symbolize the brevity of life; and musical instruments, which symbolize brevity and the ephemeral nature of life.
The first movement in composer Robert Schumann's 5 Pieces in a Folk Style, for Cello and Piano, Op. 103, is entitled Vanitas vanitatum. Mit Humor.
The motto of the Harvard Lampoon magazine is Vanitas, a play on Harvard University's actual motto, Veritas (Truth).

REFLECTION: Vanitas are such a moving piece of artwork. The meaning of the symbols that are represented can be so deep. They represent things such as time, life, mortality, etc. but are personal to the painter. I think i'll relaly be able to connect to this unit of art because i can work on my painting skills but also connect to the inner meaning of the task.