"As we already found in the case of the shingle beach, seen from the
perspective of the sea the ground is much more complex and dynamic that
we might have thought. Far from being the hard surface of materiality
that we had imagined, upon which all else rests, it reappears as a
congeries of heterogeneous materials, thrown together by the
vicissitudes of life in the weather world. Indeed wherever we look, the
ground bears witness to the liveliness of the processes that have gone
on or are going into its formation---to the effects of rain, wind, frost
and so on."
Tim Ingold, Being Alive.
