Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator YNWA 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 > - - - - > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >