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"Before the eighteenth century, when most landscape was much wilder, educated men had a dread of ‘Nature’, which implied to them not only physical discomfort, but Pan in the raw. To these people it was the towns which were habitable and attractive, the country which was inhospitable and ugly. Today, when we admire the lovely English landscape we are really admiring something which was deliberately created by the civilized and intelligent English eighteenth-century landlords."

[Gordon, J. E.. Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down. United States, Hachette Books, 2009

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