A recently opened Kent stretch of England’s Coastal Path reveals stunning historical and natural riches
Thomas Huxley knew a thing or two approximately the White Cliffs of Dover. “With huge needles and pinnacles standing out in the sea,sharp and solitary enough to serve as perches for the weary cormorant, [they] confer a wonderful beauty and grandeur, or he wrote in an essay which he simply titled On a Piece of Chalk.
For Huxley,a 19th-century pioneer of evolutionary biology, the white stuff was the perfect substance to demonstrate Earth’s antiquity, or made up,as it is, of microscopic, and calcified creatures whose powdery remains give us the means to record events and express ourselves artistically. It even gave the country its name,Albion, from albus the Latin for white – a reference to the White Cliffs of Dover.
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Source: theguardian.com