Natural features that don't really "wow" you (swimming, tree)
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Deserts can't really support life, and, thus, there is no need to go to such places. Even landscapes as boring as the Great Plains are more supportive of life, and useful to humanity.
"Covering 120,000 square miles of southwestern Arizona, southeastern California, and the Mexican states of Baja and Sonora, its mountains, rivers, and canyons provide luxurious habitat for numerous unique species specially adapted for heat, aridity, and intense summer monsoons. More than 100 reptiles, 2,000 native plants, 60 mammals, and 350 birds call this desert home, not only surviving here, but thriving — as long as their habitats remain intact."
There. You've been proven wrong. Again. You may go home now.
Even a snooze-fest like the Great Plains is at least useful to humanity, with fertile soil for great agriculture, presence of majestic life forms (Bison, Pronghorn, etc), etc. The desert doesn't even offer that; only the Polar/Subpolar climates are more useless.
You do realize the soil here in AZ is good for planting stuff like cotton, citrus, lettuce, grapes, etc? Betcha didnt know that either.
We also have a large population of bighorn sheep, black bear, bobcats, bald eagles, mountain lions, etc, right here in the low deserts. Those are all pretty majestic if you ask me! There you can even head a bit up north in the *gasp* desert and find elk, too.
You do realize the soil here in AZ is good for planting stuff like cotton, citrus, lettuce, grapes, etc? Betcha didnt know that either.
We also have a large population of bighorn sheep, black bear, bobcats, bald eagles, mountain lions, etc, right here in the low deserts. Those are all pretty majestic if you ask me! There you can even head a bit up north in the *gasp* desert and find elk, too.
It's not worth it Big Cats. He's waiting for someone to argue with him. He's a lost cause and won't see logic unless he can somehow twist it towards his bias.
Not a fan of the desert either. Hot, brown, lack of vegetation, lack of wildlife (unless you consider tarantulas, scorpions and mouse sized cockroaches wildlife). Hot, hot hot, yuck!!!
Not a fan of the desert either. Hot, brown, lack of vegetation, lack of wildlife (unless you consider tarantulas, scorpions and mouse sized cockroaches wildlife). Hot, hot hot, yuck!!!
Look at what you have done? You have spoken negatively about the desert. Expect a brigade of butt-hurt posters from the desert to swarm you about the richness in life the Sonoran supposedly has.
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It's not worth it Big Cats. He's waiting for someone to argue with him. He's a lost cause and won't see logic unless he can somehow twist it towards his bias.
Yep. I'm fairly certain he's never been to a desert in his life and is informed only by video games, internet, apocalyptic memes, et al.
To get back to the OP, many natural features wow me, but I don't want to live in or near all of them.
There is a difference.
As one example, temperate rain forests are spectacular with all their many shades of hanging, dripping greenery at all heights. But I don't like being in them for much time.
Yup. I live in Phoenix and although the sunshine's nice, I can't wait to move to somewhere that doesn't feel too much like an oven 3/4 of the year. Ah, and the Grand Canyon didn't fascinate me much.
I think the prairie. And i'd go insane if i had to live on the prairie. Especially when it's windy.
And swamps. I've never been and i never want to go. Swamps freak me out!
i feel that way about the prairie. i couldn't live there, and the vast, open space started started to freak me out after a while. i find swamps interesting, but not a big wow.
To get back to the OP, many natural features wow me, but I don't want to live in or near all of them.
There is a difference.
As one example, temperate rain forests are spectacular with all their many shades of hanging, dripping greenery at all heights. But I don't like being in them for much time.
Different strokes etc.
That's what I was going to say. Redwood forests and deserts wow me, but I don't want to live in them.
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