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The Faroes black and white

The climate of the Faroe Islands is manageable from a human perspective. The landscape, it seems to me is the bigger challenge.

Villages are sprinkled throughout the islands, tucked into small coves and protected by hills and mountains towering above. The towns are so small, it must be possible to know everyone by name. The towns are so isolated by the landscape around them, it must be hard to imagine the world beyond your own home.

Nearly everywhere I went in the Faroe Islands I was reminded of nature's superiority over human beings. The small shack at the base of a mountain. A tiny boat floating near the horizon of an endless sea. A storm sweeping down a hillside toward a village of cottages set along the shoreline.

Whenever I see a remote human outpost in the middle of nowhere, a town in a desert, or a home in the middle of a forest, I ask, "Why here?" Of all the places in the world, why would someone think this is a good place to set up shop, or build a home, or start a business? It must be because no matter how difficult the situation looks to us, as an outsider, it's perfect for someone else.

The Faroe Islands is one of those special places. Too hard, too remote for most, but perfect for 50,000 people, with their own language, their own history, and dedicated to a lifestyle provided to them by a rugged landscape and the sea that surrounds them and protects them from the outside world.

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