In Bronze Age Britain, artists made a 100 metre long picture of a horse using trenches filled with chalk. For 3000 years people have regularly repaired the artwork, removing stray plants and topping up chalk. There’s something very beautiful about a chain of people with such wildly different experiences of the world preserving beauty and creativity across millenniums

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uffington_White_Horse

Uffington White Horse - Wikipedia

@joannaholman Terry Pratchett has a wonderful Hommage to it in his late Tiffany Aching novels.
@pipe_dreams @joannaholman When I read the post I immediately had a "oh THATs where He got the inspiration from"-moment