There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
And I have no doubt that the American people generally believe the world is safer, and that we are safer, when we are stronger.
The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has geography.
America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
With the demise of the biblical religions that have provided the American people with their core values since their country's inception, we are reverting to the pagan worldview. Trees and animals are venerated, while man is simply one more animal in the ecosystem - and largely a hindrance, not an asset.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country.
I know that the only reason American landscapes sometimes disappoint me is that, just a century before I was born, the great rivers and prairies and wild forests still existed. And they were sublime.
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