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The Mythical Beauty of Scotland

About a quarter of the time I say Iā€™m Scottish, someone mentions how beautiful the nature there is, and how much theyā€™d like to visit.

Putting aside that they might just be saying this as a conversation piece, and putting our ā€˜autistic capsā€™ on, the ideaā€™s baffling.

Iā€™ve travelled a reasonable chunk of the planet, and Iā€™ve never seen somewhere with ugly nature. Itā€™s all beautiful.

Scotland may be extremely green, but then so are large swathes of Pakistan.

Even deserts are beautiful (at least in pictures - I hope to see one, one day), and if a desolate land of nothing-but-tiny-rocks can evoke the awe of Gaia then I donā€™t see how anywhere could not have beautiful nature.

Maybe Svalbard. That place just looks terrifying.

But everywhere else is beautiful, so I donā€™t see how Scotland could ever be special.