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> Well, sometimes it can be wonderful to be in a place without any sign of civilization, except perhaps the road you're walking on. Agree, but in Holland, that

• amelius 11y ago
  I guess the coast line (dunes, sea) is an exception. So they better not put those windmills there :)
  • wobbleblob 11y ago
    The dunes as they are today are very much man made actually. The natural dunes are low and constantly shifting inland. People were tired of sand blowing over their fields and villages, and started planting trees and marram grass on them to fix them in place. The dunes have grown very tall in some places as a result, some over 50 meters above sea level, by far the highest natural features in the coastal provinces. The coastline of Zeeland is very artificial of course, much of it is reclaimed land. In the north of course there is the sea dike of Camperduin and reclaimed land, and Wieringen is no longer an island. The Waddenzee is quite unnatural. The closing of the Zuiderzee has changed the water chemistry such that seagrass will not grow there any more, and the islands have all been fixed in place, while they would naturally migrate east. I mock Staatsbosbeheer in their constant effort, working hard to keep the landscape from evolving and to keep it in its 'natural' state. The natural state would be a low lying brackish wetland that's regularly flooded by the sea, and the natural state would be constantly evolving.