The Open Boat and Other Stories is including a short stories by American author Stephen Crane.

"When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples. Any visible expression of nature would surely be pelleted with his jeers. [...]"Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature."