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Culture and climate change in literary Lakeland
The great landscapes of the Lake District have been shaped by the words of poets, but they’ve also been shaped by human actions – not always for the good, says NICK MATTHEWS
DRAMATIC: An autumnal Lake Buttermere

I HAVE been holidaying in the Lake District for about 20 years, and I find it endlessly fascinating. 

Simon Schama, in his book Landscape and Memory, says that “landscapes are culture before they are nature — constructs of the imagination projected onto wood, water and rock.”

If the perception of any place is shaped by culture it is the Lakes. 

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