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Desire Paths

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Desire paths Desire paths can be paths created as a consequence of erosion caused by human or animal foot-fall or traffic. The paths usually represent the shortest or most easily navigated routes between origins and destinations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

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People walking between the bus stop (outside the picture) and the building (on the right) don’t like taking the long route around this huge green circle. It was pretty obvious that this would happen sooner or later.

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[–] lud@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

English is a strange language 🤷

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In Dutch we call it "elephant's path" (loosely translated of course). And I think that's beautiful.

For some reason I now have Colonel Hathi's March from The Jungle Book playing in my head :D

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

That I can agree with fully.