Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me

[Gandalf]

South Korea 64% forests.
England 15% forests.

Massive difference. Of course Asian people consider it barren. Personally I love the UK countryside, but it lacks trees.

Very different.

[El Kabong]

South Korea 64% forests.
England 15% forests.

Massive difference. Of course Asian people consider it barren. Personally I love the UK countryside, but it lacks trees.

Very different.

Well obviously there is Robin Hood's lair miles, good old Sherwood Forest right?

Never been to England but I've been to Normandy which I assume would look similar to parts of Southeastern England complete with hedgerows and all. Also in reading and in film when I think stereotypical England I'm thinking moors, hedgerows, and the occasional forest where 0 danger lurks...there's no spiders, no scorpions, no snakes, no wolves, no lions, and no bears. The worst thing you'd have to fear is a wild boar....which is oddly enough a homonym of exactly what I feared when I was forced to read those damned Jane Austen and Bronte sister novels in my high school English classes...and indeed a wild bore they were


Watching various films shot on location in England show very similar biomes. I'm certain there's wildlife a plenty in England and of course different habitats for different animal species. The lack of animals dangerous to humans present in England is really striking to me....not that if you're in the woods in America you're in imminent danger all the time, but you DO have to be alert depending on the time of year and where you are.

[Gandalf]

Woah, England is actually 10% forest! I like the English foot trails and streams. It is pleasant, but hardly the Amazon. You are right there Lyle, not much in the way of dangerous wildlife. Out here they had boars infesting Seoul a few years ago and I regularly drive by deer road kill on my long drive home. I don't get to see many alive which is a shame.

The cities here are lacking in green space really and they build up to account for the forest covered land. In England everyone has their own plot of land which takes up space. Not having a go as I prefer a house in the middle of nowhere as people are a nuisance, but I drove past apartments 50 stories high today. No need to lose your trees when you do that, only your sanity.

[Gandalf]

Yes, Lyle. A lot of moors out there and the highlands is very barren. The highlands is quite beautiful IMO. And I love the Lochs. But just no trees! I blame Facebook.

[El Kabong]

Woah, England is actually 10% forest! I like the English foot trails and streams. It is pleasant, but hardly the Amazon. You are right there Lyle, not much in the way of dangerous wildlife. Out here they had boars infesting Seoul a few years ago and I regularly drive by deer road kill on my long drive home. I don't get to see many alive which is a shame.

The cities here are lacking in green space really and they build up to account for the forest covered land. In England everyone has their own plot of land which takes up space. Not having a go as I prefer a house in the middle of nowhere as people are a nuisance, but I drove past apartments 50 stories high today. No need to lose your trees when you do that, only your sanity.

Takes all kinds of locations for wildlife to thrive. Is there ANY hunting culture in South Korea? They have several different species of deer and also they have the boar you mentioned. If you want to see live deer then go out to the country and see them. They are most active at dawn and dusk, you should make some hiking trips and do a bit of a 'Walden' keep a journal of what animals you see and what they're doing. It's quite interesting the lives of critters around you.


I couldn't abide by staying in a concrete jungle. There's plenty of woods around my area and state/national parks galore. Getting out in nature and away from any and all screens is a brilliant thing. Very refreshing. Hunting is good too, the focus you have, the stillness, it's a remarkable contrast to the workaday world


Often I wonder when I'm driving on the highway or sitting at my desk about what the first settlers encountered in America. They must have been shocked at the density of the forests and the different types of soils, biomes, diversity of wildlife, it's still pretty incredible. In my state alone you've got Beach, Outer Banks, coastal plains, sandhills, Piedmont, Mountains. All with different species inhabiting those areas, different crops grow in the different climates, it's pretty impressive at least to me it is.

[Master]

South Korea 64% forests.
England 15% forests.

Massive difference. Of course Asian people consider it barren. Personally I love the UK countryside, but it lacks trees.

Very different.

Well obviously there is Robin Hood's lair miles, good old Sherwood Forest right?

Never been to England but I've been to Normandy which I assume would look similar to parts of Southeastern England complete with hedgerows and all. Also in reading and in film when I think stereotypical England I'm thinking moors, hedgerows, and the occasional forest where 0 danger lurks...there's no spiders, no scorpions, no snakes, no wolves, no lions, and no bears. The worst thing you'd have to fear is a wild boar....which is oddly enough a homonym of exactly what I feared when I was forced to read those damned Jane Austen and Bronte sister novels in my high school English classes...and indeed a wild bore they were


Watching various films shot on location in England show very similar biomes. I'm certain there's wildlife a plenty in England and of course different habitats for different animal species. The lack of animals dangerous to humans present in England is really striking to me....not that if you're in the woods in America you're in imminent danger all the time, but you DO have to be alert depending on the time of year and where you are.

We have Black adder snakes, they are dangerous.

[Beanz]

Of course Britain is not like the Amazon, that would be weird. There has been people here for so long it is hardly surprising that deforestation has occurred. We have now fallen in to the trap of believing that conservation is the preserving of some static human free habitat when of course that is just a modern way of not being able to hold two thoughts in our head at once. There is a pretty strong branch of anthropology in which the agricultural revolution is not seen as the overwhelming positive sign of progress we have been taught and it makes some very strong arguments. The history of our landscape though is a clear demonstration of the same feudal divisions that still visibly mark the land and in which such a small number of people own so much land. Trees, woods and forests are still plentiful, with many cities and towns having several woods in each town as well as parks and hundreds of trees lining the streets.

I love living so close to the moors and inbetween two of the most beautiful coastlines in the country so maybe I am spoiled, but there is still plenty of green and untouched preserved wild open space in Britain.

[p4pking]

Have you read “Sapiens”, Beanz? It touches on the agricultural revolution a fair bit and makes that case. I live in BC Canada so if you think youre spoiled for wildnerness I can raise you

[Beanz]

Have you read “Sapiens”, Beanz? It touches on the agricultural revolution a fair bit and makes that case. I live in BC Canada so if you think youre spoiled for wildnerness I can raise you

No I haven't, it looks interesting though. Mainly because it is by a Gay Israeli historian which are my favourite type, especially if he advocates the destruction of Goyim


Canada sounds amazing. Iaminuits photographs and tales of the wilderness there always made it sound amazing. The whole of North America is somewhere I would love to explore at some point. That kind of scale is not really found here. Even France makes Britain seem small.

[p4pking]

Have you read “Sapiens”, Beanz? It touches on the agricultural revolution a fair bit and makes that case. I live in BC Canada so if you think youre spoiled for wildnerness I can raise you

No I haven't, it looks interesting though. Mainly because it is by a Gay Israeli historian which are my favourite type, especially if he advocates the destruction of Goyim


Canada sounds amazing. Iaminuits photographs and tales of the wilderness there always made it sound amazing. The whole of North America is somewhere I would love to explore at some point. That kind of scale is not really found here. Even France makes Britain seem small.

Haha. I literally had no idea he was gay or Israeli, which is probably to his credit, it doesnt have an agenda and is very easy to read. I have visited where Iaminuit was from, thats actually way too remote for me. youd have to really have some kind of excursion planned beforehand, living there would be like being on another planet for the vast majority.

[Gandalf]

Of course Britain is not like the Amazon, that would be weird. There has been people here for so long it is hardly surprising that deforestation has occurred. We have now fallen in to the trap of believing that conservation is the preserving of some static human free habitat when of course that is just a modern way of not being able to hold two thoughts in our head at once. There is a pretty strong branch of anthropology in which the agricultural revolution is not seen as the overwhelming positive sign of progress we have been taught and it makes some very strong arguments. The history of our landscape though is a clear demonstration of the same feudal divisions that still visibly mark the land and in which such a small number of people own so much land. Trees, woods and forests are still plentiful, with many cities and towns having several woods in each town as well as parks and hundreds of trees lining the streets.

I love living so close to the moors and inbetween two of the most beautiful coastlines in the country so maybe I am spoiled, but there is still plenty of green and untouched preserved wild open space in Britain.

You haven't got many trees, Luv. Just admit it. 😋

[Gandalf]

Look at the data. The UK has less forestry than most countries in the world. Lots of grass, but an insatiable appetite for population expansionism which costs a lot of money. I knew the tree density was low but this low is a shocker. Still the lefties import 300,000 a year and go on about the environment. Absolute nutters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...by_forest_area

[Beanz]

Look at the data. The UK has less forestry than most countries in the world. Lots of grass, but an insatiable appetite for population expansionism which costs a lot of money. I knew the tree density was low but this low is a shocker. Still the lefties import 300,000 a year and go on about the environment. Absolute nutters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...by_forest_area

A concern for the environment is hardly a left right issue. If it is then you have finally admitted to being the Tory boy you always claimed not to be. Now you are blaming an imaginary lack of treed on immigration. I can see plenty of trees from my window and that is on the council estate side of the road. You just invent stuff to moan about