There is a very good book which talks about “The long now”. About expanding now from just the present to longer periods of decades, centuries and millenia.

Really helps in setting things into perspective - https://www.amazon.com/Clock-Long-Now-Time-Responsibility/dp...

The creators of the project also wrote a book about their thinking [0]. I highlighted the hell out of this book.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Clock-Long-Now-Time-Responsibility-eb...