Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

My big struggle is how people can not care, erase, not remember.

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and, having figured out what the greatest number were least disposed to declared that all of them should do it.

I do believe that enduring geological features are important, though I don't think I can be clear about exactly why.