It struck me on holiday in what you call "countryside" that pretty much every square inch of England is curated, whereas bits of Australia a few hours' drive out of the city ... aren't.
Oh, completely. I came across this ( http://www.aeonmagazine.com/nature-and-cosmos/hugh-thomson-britain-forests-myth/ ) only today, which pushes the notion of an unspoiled countryside even further back into history.
I think I would like a copy of 'The history of the countryside', but not at Amazon money.
Actually, I begin to wonder if that was the thing that freaked me out about northern Wisconsin/Upper Peninnsula - I grew up where there were signs of people from the Neolithic onwards. It was just all... there. A set of objects that were the result ot projecting something like four-dimensional tree rings onto a three-dimensional space.
Or maybe I just didn't dig quite so much brown wood panelling. It was like driving through 'That seventies show'
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Date: 2012-10-22 11:00 pm (UTC)I'm not entirely sure why, though
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Date: 2012-10-23 07:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-27 08:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-27 10:07 pm (UTC)I think I would like a copy of 'The history of the countryside', but not at Amazon money.
Actually, I begin to wonder if that was the thing that freaked me out about northern Wisconsin/Upper Peninnsula - I grew up where there were signs of people from the Neolithic onwards. It was just all... there. A set of objects that were the result ot projecting something like four-dimensional tree rings onto a three-dimensional space.
Or maybe I just didn't dig quite so much brown wood panelling. It was like driving through 'That seventies show'
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Date: 2012-10-27 10:12 pm (UTC)