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Dramatic Peak District, with its genuine steep fells, never fails to astonish me. A car will (9) you all round the Peak District (10) a morning. It is nothing (11) a crumpled green handkerchief. (12) , we hear of search parties going out there to find (13) travelers. I have never explored this region properly, and so it remains to me a country of (14) . I could go on with this list of surprises, but perhaps you had better make your own.
Another (15) of our landscape is its exquisite moderation. It has been born of a compromise (16) wildness and tameness, between Nature and Man. One (17) for this is that it contains that exquisite (18) between Nature and Man. The fence and the gate are man-made, but are not severely regular and trim (19) they would be in some other countries. The trees and hedges, the grass and (20) flowers, all suggest that Nature has not been forced (21) obedience. The irregularity and coloring of the cottage make it (22) snugly into the landscape, and you feel it might have grown there, because it looks nearly as much a piece of natural history as the trees. In some countries, the cottage would have declared, "Man, the drainer, the tiller, the builder, has settled here. " In this English (23) there is no such direct opposition. Men and trees and flowers, we feel, have all settled down comfortably together. The motto is, "Live and let live. " This exquisite (24) between Nature and Man explains in part the charm of the older Britain. The whole town fitted snugly into the landscape, (25) they were no more than bits of woodland; and roads went (26) the easiest way as (27) as rivers. It was impossible to say where cultivation ended and wild life began. It was a country rich (28) trees, birds, and wild flowers, as we can see to this day.

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