“The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.”

― Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things

Every so often, groups of people have come together on this hill, to preserve this.

This is a 3,000 year old piece of art.

This is the Uffington White Horse and it is somewhere around 3,000 years old. It was carved into this hill in Oxfordshire before the British isles had written history, so we have no idea who made it, or why. And until humanity invented aircraft millennia later, no one could even really see it properly.

We're smashing the chalk into the figure of the Horse today to preserve its appearance and keep its longevity as people have done for the last 3,000 years, otherwise it wouldn't be here.

This is art that's been preserved by generation after generation after generation after generation, repair and upkeep that's been going on for millennia through the Roman empire, the medieval period, a lot of invasions, the English Civil War, the formation of the United Kingdom, all the way up to the Information Age.

Without that human intervention, it would grass over 25, 30 years, and be lost forever.