## Metadata - Author: [[Rebecca Boyle]] - Full Title: Our Moon - Category: #books ## Highlights - One reason so few places on Earth resemble the Moon is because of all the water on this planet. Earth’s water softens and demolishes rock. Combined with wind, water is a destroyer of worlds. Entire mountain ranges rise and fall through the work of water. It also erases craters. Though the timing and duration of the beating are still up for debate, we know Earth was bombarded by asteroids long ago, and yet there are no battle scars to show for it. But the Moon, free of water and wind, preserves a record of its primordial pummeling. ([Location 298](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0C2PF3RTV&location=298))