Naturens kanon

20 steder i den danske natur
Det kunne være: Skagens Gren, Råbjerg Mile, Rubjerg Knude, Rebild Bakker, Ørkenen på Anholt, Fur, Silkeborgsøerne, Det Sydfynske Øhav, Mols Bjerge, Knudshoved Odde, Skejten, Roskilde Fjord, Store Blåkilde, Stevns Klint, Møns Klint, Skjern Å, Lille Vildmose, Suserup Skov, Hammeren, Vadehavet.

10 typer af sten
Det kunne være: flint, kridt, kildekalk, rhombeporfyr, østersøkvartsporfyr, kinnediabas, kvarts, granit, granat, nexøsandsten.

3 typer af skyer
Det kunne være: Cumulusskyer, amboltskyer, fjerskyer.

10 stjernebilleder, stjerner, galaxer eller planeter
Det kunne være: Orion, Cassiopeia, Karlsvognen, Nordstjernen, Capella, Andromeda, Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter.

10 typer af natur
Det kunne være: Løvskov, kilde, højmose, ellesump, eng, kalkend, strandeng, hede, klit, overdrev.

10 danske fisk
Det kunne være: Gedde, aborre, ål, ørred, laks, rødspætte, pigvar, torsk, sild, ulk.

10 danske padder og krybdyr
Det kunne være: Skrubtudse, grønbroget tudse, grøn frø, spidssnudet frø, løvfrø, lille vandsalamander, stor vandsalamander, markfirben, hugorm, snog.

20 danske planter
Det kunne være: Engelsød, åkande, nøkkerose, blå anemone, hvid anemone, engkabbeleje, kodriver, kornvalmue, kornblomst, følfod, skovjordbær, rødkløver, skovsyre, gederams, blåklokke, gul snerre, hedelyng, liljekonval, gøgeurt, tagrør.

20 danske fugle
Det kunne være: Skarv, fiskehejre, stork, knopsvane, edderfugl, musvåge, agerhøne, trane, vibe, sneppe, hættemåge, ringdue, natugle, mursejler, sanglærke, nattergal, musvit, stær, solsort, ravn.

10 danske pattedyr
Det kunne være: Pindsvin, skimmelflagermus, hare, egern, brun rotte, ræv, grævling, rådyr, krondyr, spættet sæl.

20 danske insekter
Det kunne være: Døgnflue, guldsmed, skumcikade, løvgræshoppe, vandkalv, mariehøne, løbebille, stor gedehams, humlebi, nældens takvinge, citronsommerfugl, admiral, blåfugl, kålsommerfugl, ligustersværmer, bjørnespinder, smutugle, stikmyg, dansemyg, regnklæg.

10 danske smådyr
Det kunne være: Skovflåt, korsedderkop, mejer, skolopender, tusindben, bænkebider, havesnegl, tangloppe, blåmusling, taskekrabbe.

10 danske træer
Det kunne være: Eg, bøg, lind, ask, birk, elm, kirsebær, røn, el, asp.

10 danske svampe
Det kunne være: Karljohan, kantarel, violet ametysthat, tøndersvamp, kæmpestøvbold, agerchampignon, stinksvamp, rød fluesvamp, grøn fluesvamp, trompetsvamp.

De 5 største naturforskere i verden
Det kunne være: Carl von Linné, H.C. Ørsted, Charles Darwin, James Watson og Francis Crick.

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What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?

Zalasiewicz's book offers a fascinating and sustained look at what will happen to the material artifacts of human civilization 100 million years from now, when cities like Manhattan are mere trace fossils in flooded submarinescapes, Amsterdam is an indecipherably fragmentary presence in the lithified mudflats of a new, future continent, and cities like Los Angeles and Zurich have been eroded away entirely by a hundred million years of rockslides and weather.
To quote an early chapter from Zalasiewicz's book at great length:

The surface of the Earth is no place to preserve deep history. This is in spite of – and in large part because of – the many events that have taken place on it. The surface of the future Earth, one hundred million years now, will not have preserved evidence of contemporary human activity. One can be quite categorical about this. Whatever arrangement of oceans and continents, or whatever state of cool or warmth will exist then, the Earth's surface will have been wiped clean of human traces.
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Thus, one hundred million years from now, nothing will be left of our contemporary human empire at the Earth's surface. Our planet is too active, its surface too energetic, too abrasive, too corrosive, to allow even (say) the Egyptian Pyramids to exist for even a hundredth of that time. Leave a building carved out of solid diamond – were it even to be as big as the Ritz – exposed to the elements for that long and it would be worn away quite inexorably.
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So there will be no corroded cities amid the jungle that will, then, cover most of the land surface, no skyscraper remains akin to some future Angkor Wat for future archaeologists to pore over. Structures such as those might survive at the surface for thousands of years, but not for many millions.