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where the land flinches and the ocean keeps rewriting the contract
means the edge of the land where it meets the sea — or, as a verb, to move along smoothly without effort, letting momentum do the work.
from From Latin 'costa,' meaning 'rib' or 'side' — the same root that gives us 'cutlet' and 'intercostal.' It drifted through Old French 'coste' to mean the 'side' of the land, the edge facing the sea. The verb sense — to glide downhill or along the shore without pedaling — sailed in later, as if coasting were what you do when you simply follow the side and let the slope carry you.
- coastline paradox
- measured length grows infinitely as your ruler shrinks
- retreat
- coasts erode and migrate inland over centuries
- population magnet
- nearly half of humanity lives near a coast
- to coast
- the verb means gliding downhill without effort
- fjords
- glaciers carved them into impossibly deep coastlines
big sur — dramatic california coastline stretching 90 miles along highway 1 with 1,000-foot cliffs
cliffs of moher — irish atlantic coast with 700-foot sea cliffs spanning 8 kilometers in county clare
amalfi coast — southern italy's 50-kilometer coastline along the tyrrhenian sea with vertical limestone cliffs