Everything below follows from the same arrangement: water on three sides or more, and one narrow way in by land. Here are seventeen things that produces.
1. The Spit That…
Every spring is an intersection between water moving underground and a surface that happens to be in the way. The rock decides where, and everything else follows. Here are fourteen.…
Coastlines are not eroded evenly. The sea attacks everything and removes softer material faster, which is why almost every coast is a sequence of projections and indentations rather than a…
Navigation problems divide into two parts, and confusing them is the reason this subject seems simpler than it is.
The first is knowing which way you are facing. A compass…
The most informative thing in any orchard is the spacing, because it tells you how big the trees are meant to get and how the fruit is meant to come…
The single fact behind most of this is that the sun is not a point of light. It is a disc, roughly half a degree across, and almost everything strange…