God's own landscape

When I saw this article:"An exhibition celebrating the British landscape opens at Tate Britain later this month with an accompanying series starting on BBC 1 tomorrow. Lisa Allardice asks five modern artists about the places that have fired their imaginations " I thought about the ALternativeEmerging email list and God's own iPod that came out of it and wondered: could we do the same with landscape: a 'looking list' rather than a 'listening list'?
So, what landscapes have fired your imagination?
I have to say tat for me one of the best is actually part seascape: North Devon coast, especially Lee Abbey; perhaps because this was a retreat centre which was part of some of the most formative and growthful times of my life, but also because it really is beautiful. It still defines fro me what seaside should be.

And if I could be greedy and nominate somewhere else ['Go on it's your blog'] ... Well I'd go for round where I grew up; the Wrekin area of Shropshire. Still love those gentle hills and the view over the southern end of the Cheshire plain towards the Wrekin ... I realised that it has kind of got into my sould and when I see landscapes that remind me of it I have a sense of home. For me it is a landscape associated with spiritual awakening to the power and joy of creation. It is the landscape where the urges towards a Pagan sensibility first became clear to me, somehow. And while I am not a Pagan, I do grok some of what that means for at least some neo-Pagans, Wiccans and Druids. It is an important thing to 'get' if we are to understand spirituality in the west at the moment. IMHO.

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