As a whole I am both
safe and secure.

Behead me and I become
a place of meeting.

Behead me again and I am
the partner of ready.

Restore me, and I become
the domain of beasts.

What am I?

Until it is measured, not known. Yet how you miss it when it has gone. What is it?

I have cities, but no houses. I have mountains, but no trees. I have water, but no fish. What am I?

There was a greenhouse.
Inside the greenhouse, there is a white house.
Inside the white house, there is a red house.
Inside the red house, there are lots of babies.

What is It?

Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I?

When you say goodbye, I am what you need to tie.
I come as a couple and go wherever you run.
Who am I?

You measure my life in hours
I serve you by expiring
I vanish faster when I am thin
and slower when I am thick
The wind is my energy
What am I?

What is full of holes but still holds water?

I am the largest in my family of fifty.
The youngest of our family lives separately from the rest of the family and so do I.
I am regarded as harsh and tough.
I am so large, you cut me in two equal halves,
each half would still be larger than the second largest member of the family.
Who am I?

I shave every day, but my beard stays the same. What am I?