low side the basin, high side the range
mountains are not somehow created whole and subsequently worn away. they wear down as they come up, and these mountains have been rising and eroding in fairly even ratio for millions of years – rising and shedding sediment steadily through time, always the same, never the same, like row upon row of fountains.
(john mcphee, annals of the former world)
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while i would like to believe in nature’s gracious strength to survive our lowly humankind’s destruction, it is hard to say now that the mountain without snow is the same mountain, even if has not changed in height. it is hard to see the mountain with roads running through it and people destroying its forests and luxury hotels in its caves as the same mountain. but perhaps, maybe long after we are gone, that balance can once again find a calm whole, and they’ll write about us as the shedding sediment of her mountain’s majesty, in the annals of the former world…