Growing up in Roswell, NM I used to believe that the mountains were purple because all I ever saw of mountains was El Capitan and that was the way it appeared. Imagine my surprise when we finally visited the mountains and I found out that they were dirt, trees and rocks just like the plains I grew up on.
A childhood belief about landscape

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that mountains were dinosaurs that had died and been covered with dirt.— Marina
- When i was little, i use to believe that mountains where actually dead dinosaurs covered in dirt. — Patricia
- I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.— Tara
- when i was young i used to believe that the sun goes down behind the mountains into the earth— confused
- I used to think that mountains were actually buried dinosaurs.— Jena
- I used to think that indents in mountains were the footprints of dinosaurs. — Emily