The closest you’ll get is the vast network of ancient termite mounds in eastern Brazil. These huge mounds (typically eight feet tall) crisscross an area of Brazil totaling 230,000 square kilometers, and can be seen from space.6 They are built more or less every twenty meters, and there are two hundred million of them. The termites began building these mounds almost four thousand years ago. They formed slowly as termites came to the surface to toss out the unwanted dirt from the network of tunnels excavated for transportation and their living quarters. They are, essentially, majestic garbage
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