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The US is mostly fields of dust, rock, and sometimes grass. States, cities, and geological structures get named after people we've long conquered and run out.
by seiji 13y ago
The US is mostly fields of dust, rock, and sometimes grass. States, cities, and geological structures get named after people we've long conquered and run out.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoI didn't realize how true this was until I drove from Chicago to the northern Nevada desert for Burning man and back again.
- jerf 13y agoMy favorite east-west flight I've ever done happened to be in Spring, just after all the farmers had plowed, but before anything they had planted had come up yet (or very much). Farmland was brown, cities were cities, everything else was green. You could look down and it was a life-size graph of basic land utilization. There's a lot of farms in the US... but there's a lot of wilderness, too. Not to mention when you're flying over the Rockies, you've essentially left civilization... mountain after mountain after mountain of absolutely nothing human. Even the "dense" parts of the mountains are just thin skins surrounding our roads, followed by wilderness just one mountain over (or two in the really dense areas).