Every gorge answers two questions: what removed the rock, and why did the sides not fall in afterwards. The second is frequently the more interesting. Here are seventeen answers.
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None of this involves asking anybody anything or going anywhere in particular. It is a set of things to notice, and they are all available within a short walk of…
Every lake island is either something that was already there, something that grew, or something somebody built. Which one it is determines everything about the place. Here are fifteen.
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The question worth asking on any open plain is what is stopping the trees, because something is. Here are seventeen answers.
1. The Rainfall Squeeze
The basic temperate grassland occupies…
The useful reframing is that an evening is not a shorter day. Different things are open, different people are out, and the place behaves differently - which means daytime tactics…
The useful thing to look at in any harbour is the wall - which direction it faces, how high it stands and where the entrance is - because that tells…