I gerw up within 100 miles of a portion of the Appalachian Mountains that were then quite sparsely populated and still heavily forested throughout. Numerous times I would ride through the mountains with my family, never seeing the ground on distant mountains, but just treetops. As a result, for a long time I thought that mountains were not big hills, but rather clumps of very tall trees.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- When traveling, I used to believe the hills and mountains were graves for giants.— seattle
- 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
- I used to believe that mountains were giant camels that God put under the earth.— flip4smith
- I use to think mountains were dead dinosaurs and grass grew over it.— Tara