h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

1) The sheer amount of life that is the rainforest in Cameroon.
2) The night sky from a dessert (or very arid and unpopulated area)
3) The thrill of the exact second taking off in an airplane
4) Seeing love in someone's eyes
5) The landscape of Lesotho

More later, but I don't want to hog the forum!

The prodigious apetite and capability for learning in infant humans.

Thank you Spearcarrier......please, hog away!
I will be adding all the different wonders to my original entry, quoting authors of course, and submitting it to the Guide...
Eat Grimsby Fish! Preferably in Cleethorpes!

Standing miles from nowhere and viewing the sky on a clear night with not a street light etc in sight, and the only sound is from the insects.

Walking in the Peak District on a beautiful crisp winter's day.

+ Dawn at sea.
+ Raindrops on a steel roof

oooh....I've gone all perculiar....

Who is dawn and why's she all at sea?

I know that this is supposed to be stuff on earth, but virtually anything in space - you've only got to look at the Hubble space telescope photos.

Suspension bridges
Typhoons (as long as I'm not right in the middle) DJ would find it hard to view anything from the middle of a dessert: he doesn't eat them.

No-one's mentioned music. Why is it that a fundamentally mathematical structure of different sound frequencies played in a certain order can make me laugh, cry, dance, evoke memories...? I don't care to imagine life without music.

Other things that are wonderful to me are Tea and Chocolate.

Flowering plants - the fact that a tiny plant struggling for a foothold on a saltwater lashed cliff face would expend so much energy putting out brightly coloured blooms.

Books - the fact that the knowledge someone gathers through a lifetime of study can be passed on long after they are dead and gone.

Colour - like when you get blue and yellow and mix them together it goes green. If that's not magic then I'd be at a loss to know what is.

Oh, green....yes, green has a magic all of its own!
Right, I am going to add your suggestions to my entry, with you all listed as referenced researchers, then submit it to the Peer Review.
Tonight.
Yes, definately tonight.
I'll notify you all if & when it gets passed for the Main Guide
Thanks everyone!
~Galaxy Babe~

p.s. How ~could~ I have missed out Chocolate and Music?????