birdsquirrel:speciesbarocus:Roman mosaic floor discovered under a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella
birdsquirrel:speciesbarocus:Roman mosaic floor discovered under a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, Veneto. #something about this really gets to me #how if you get enough dirt on your floor it just becomes the ground #and eventually someone is trying to farm in your living room so you know what happens to old desire paths, right? Desire paths are just the little shortcuts people take through nature than we wear into the ground without ever paving. Well in some places the desire paths are centuries old, just paths of convenience that people take but no one bothered to pave. They call them ‘holloways” and they look like this:and you think “oh, human feet wore a path all deep into the earth, how neat”But what if we didn’t wear a path INTO the earth. What if we just kept the path worn level AS THE GROUND ROSE AROUND IT -- source link