I was probably about 8 when I thought of this. Having grown up in a town in Florida where rocks did not occur naturally, the only ones I ever saw were in flowers beds, etc. One day, I was looking at a bunch of them, and it occured to me that all rocks must be dried up gum!
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- I thought that islands and continents were floating rocks so you could swim underneath them.— Kat
- I used to believe that flowerbeds were beds for flowers.— Nina Green
- I used to believe that rocks are animals.— Lulzy
- I used to believe that when there was an earthquake, rocks would fall from the sky.— Nai
- I used to believe that mirrors were found inside rocks.— Optional
- when i was kid, i believed dynamite was something you sprayed on rocks and then they would dissapear— big googely