The best line in "Country Roads, Take Me Home" is "Life is old there, older than the trees Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze." That part of Appalachia is a temperate rainforest and is one of the most biodiverse places in the world.
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Last night on the S Bahn a bunch of young American and Irish students climbed onto the S Bahn singing that song, no doubt from the Fallout trailer, and I wanted to scream and shout and cry.
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Virginia anti-terrorism resources are being spent to monitor pipeline activists. I can't fucking even with this anymore. My heart is already broke . I'm watching a slow-motion trainwreck.http://www.richmond.com/news/plus/anti-terrorism-agencies-involved-in-monitoring-protesters-of-mountain-valley/article_2c0ee2e0-a700-5a18-a5c3-cde2e109776f.html …
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It's a beautiful part of the world. Hiking the Appalachian Trail has always been a bucket list item for me, but it will never happen. Alas.
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The New River is the 3rd oldest river in the world, right in the heart of Appalachia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_River_(Kanawha_River_tributary) …
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closest i've come yet was around Pine Creek, PA: not really the Appalachians but just beginning to hint at them. As someone who lives among rainforests and very young mountains.... i have to get back down there one of these days. it's a whole other kind of lush.
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I spent a chunk of last summer around Cumberland, hunting for very specific fossils with my partner and yeah, those are the twisted roots of some old ass mountains.
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We'd go into some old railroad cut and she'd point to like one near vertical stripe maybe a meter across and go "I think that's the oriskany" well great what are the odds of there being anything left there after all its gone through
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