[Leica] English landscape

[Nathan Wajsman]

Not to split hairs, but the sheep are not wildlife, they are kept by farmers. Hence my use of the word “man-made”.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman

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On 01 Sep 2014, at 17:41, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> Beautiful as it is, the English landscape is hardly man made. Human enabled, perhaps. Two thousand years of sheep grazing significantly altered its appearance. In rural England, Wales, and much of Scotland almost every plot of land supports a herd of herbivores that consume most shrubs and tree shoots. The forests fabled in Robin Hood legends have been decimated to support the needs of industrialization and shipbuilding. In fact the major reason for the English presence in North America in the 1700s was to obtain a supply of native timber to replace the vanished forests.
> 
> Beautiful, yes. Natural, no. In the Snowdonia hills there is a fenced enclave designed to exclude grazing animals. The hundred acre tree and shrub festooned interior looks nothing like the surrounding manicured fields.
> 
> Here is a crude P&S picture of our back yard a few years back. The little white blobs are our gardeners.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Grazing+sheep.jpg.html
> Larry Z
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> Yes, of course, England does not have anything like the Himalayas or even the Alps. But no other country has the kind of beautiful, man-made landscape as the English countryside.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
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