A few million years ago, there were tsunamis,
hurricanes, and mudslides due to torrential rainfall. Craggy mountains split off giant boulders
that crashed into the valley, glaciers cracked off icy sculptures and thundered
into the sea and snow capped mountains produced roaring avalanches.
There were earthquakes as its plates shifted
accompanied by volcanoes that spewed molten lava into the valley to form rivers
of heat. Long periods of drought
interrupted by lighting showers led to forest fires that torched millions of
acres whilst tornadoes cut through the land as if a menacing knife.
Spring floods swelled the banks of massive
rivers creating temporary lakes changing the landscape and redefining the continent
with tectonic shifts.
Then man entered the equation, and over tens of hundreds
of years in existential progression first experiencing these phenomena then resolving
to become their master. In the process,
he settled where nature could do him the most harm: along coastlines, in the
shadow of awesome mountains and menacing volcanoes, on the banks of giant
rivers to sporadically feel the full wrath of nature.
Man's quest satisfied, he came to poison his
adopted home as self-indulgent Nowhere Man turning Paradise into Nowhere Land.
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