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Some nature writers believe wilderness areas are vital for the human spirit and creativity. [38] The word, "wilderness", derives from the notion of wildness; in other words that which is not controllable by humans. The word etymology is from the Old English wildeornes, which in turn derives from wildeor meaning wild beast (wild + deor = beast ...
Nature and wildness have been important subjects in various eras of world history. An early tradition of landscape art began in China during the Tang Dynasty (618–907). The tradition of representing nature as it is became one of the aims of Chinese painting and was a significant influence in Asian art.
Matters are complicated by the fact that the words nature and natural have more than one meaning. On the one hand there is the main dictionary meaning for nature: "The phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations."
[6] [7] Portrait mode is preferred for editing page layout work, in order to view the entire page of a screen at once without showing wasted space outside the borders of a page, and for script-writing, legal work (in drafting contracts etc.), and other applications where it is useful to see a maximum number of lines of text. It is also ...
Boundaries—particularly field boundaries—are among the oldest features in an English rural landscape. [1] Although a boundary itself is an abstract concept, the boundary can often be seen by differences in land use on either side.
Although landscape borders, like natural borders, also take forms of forests, water bodies, and mountains, they are manmade instead of natural. Installing a landscape border, usually motivated by demarcating treaty -designated political boundaries, goes against nature by modifying the borderland's natural geography.
The Chinese ink painting tradition of shan shui ("mountain-water"), or "pure" landscape, in which the only sign of human life is usually a sage, or a glimpse of his hut, uses sophisticated landscape backgrounds to figure subjects, and landscape art of this period retains a classic and much-imitated status within the Chinese tradition.
Image:BlankMap-World-v4.png – Version of v2, but it increases the size of other tiny countries as well, for visibility purposes, and uses white borders even for the microstates. Image:BlankMap-World-v4-Borders.png – Version of v4 with borders around each country.