I drive people crazy sometimes musing out loud about "how that rock got there" or " where does that tree surrounded by concrete find water?" etc. It is oftentimes quite personally rewarding. I can point to two oak trèes in my woods and by their shape tell where there must have been a big one shading them when young, 200 years ago. So I can look at the woods & mentally go back potentially 5-700 years, well into the time native artifacts i have found were left there.