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fascination with intertidal plains would fall far short of imagination
if, as it were, limited between the diurnal ranges of the daily highs
and lows of the tides. There is a living dynamism of morphological processes millennia old, waiting to be discovered in the humble sediments, rocks and corals platforms beneath our feet. If our mind-map is only a geography of grand promenades promising even grandier seaviews, we would have beautiful seafronts but without beautiful minds. It would be truly tragic if we humans take upon ourselves to alter the virginality of the shores in this generation to deprive another. Geography is one great map of life and we |
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our children to lose their way even further. They have the inalienable right as heirs and skippers to our lovely earth-ship beyond our own watch. But have we lost sight of the horizon before us now ?