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Fortunately for poets and those who like to walk about in the open air, the beauty of landscape is not something that can be reduced easily to basic geology or a few ready-wrapped phrases about what places are used for. Preference and prejudice creep in.

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There is scarce a cave, an isolated rock, a lone pine tree or a pile of stones without supporting folklore.

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John Hillaby

John Hillaby

Born: July 24, 1917
Died: October 10, 1996 (aged 79)
Bio: John Hillaby was a British travel writer and explorer.

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