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18 Mar 2016
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What is the difference between landscape and scenery and countryside and nature ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between landscape and scenery and countryside and nature ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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landscape means the physical/visible parts of an area, while scenery is probably used more often when you're talking the appearance of a place eg. landscape - "the landscape changed when the town was built" compared to scenery - "the tourists enjoyed the scenery".
countryside and nature are very different; the countryside is a place (that can have lots of nature 😉) while nature has more meanings eg. a place away from humans "in nature"
--> the countryside makes me think of farms and villages while nature makes me think of animals and forests, to put it simply 😊
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Thanks for the explanations.
What would you say when you're living in a very remote place and want to emphasize that there's nothing, apart from nature?
What would you say when you're living in a very remote place and want to emphasize that there's nothing, apart from nature?
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the one word that i first think of is secluded - especially if you want to emphasise that the place you're living isn't visited or seen by other people very much. There's more colloquial ways of expressing this - backwater (ie. a backwater town - rarely used for a singular house), hinterland, backwoods etc. or more literally "the back of nowhere", "on the outskirts of society" - if the nature you're living in is farmland, then you could say your location/landscape is bucolic (focus on lifestyle - think farming, horses, villages etc. - though bucolic isn't used in everyday language much - its a more poetic word)
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Very helpful, thanks. Can you say "He lives in accordance with nature? Or how would you express that?
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I really like that!! It sort of seems to connotate that he is living alongside nature, or by its laws :)
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Yes, that's what I mean, it just sounded wrong to me.
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