Nature is at once a technologist, scrupulously obeying natural physical and chemical laws, and an artist. In Oman, Nature produces many of the country’s resources – notably oil, gas and minerals – and also features of startling beauty of form or colour

Form can be produced by erosion or construction . Wondrous erosional forms scatter the landscape. These can be caused by wind fretting a resistant rock but also by the abrasive or dissolvent effects of water

Constructional forms include both those which clearly follow the laws of physics or chemistry, and those created by plants and animals which seem to bend those laws. Too, adds its touch by building loose sand into artworks and eroding elsewhere