The_Beauty_of_Britain..doc

Where did you go during your National Day Holiday? If possible, which country would you most like to travel to? Why? Do you know anything about the U.K.? What are they? The Beauty of Britain Named “the most naturally beautiful woman of all time”, Audrey Hepburn once said, “I’m leaving and relaxing my career for my beloved motherland, the UK, when it comes to my last few years of life.” Vivien Leigh, the heroine of the movie Gone With the Wind, also expressed publicly, “When referring to my home country Great Britain, there’re only two words I’d most like to describe: pretty and beautiful! I’m starting to live there peacefully years later.” It’s true that the beauty of Britain is as hard to say as it is easy to enjoy. We have here no vast mountains or plains, but we have excellent variety. A great deal of everything is packed into this little space. People always forget the fact that this is a smallish island, with the sea always round the corner. Nature, we feel, has carefully adjusted things – mountains, plains, rivers, lakes – to the size of the island itself. A mountain 12,000 feet high would be a terrible monster here, as wrong as a plain 400 miles long, a river as broad as the Mississippi. Though the geographical features of this island are comparatively small, that does not mean that our mountains are not mountains, our plains not plains. As a report pointed out in?The Thames recently, that some climbers invited a Swiss guide into the Lake District, and on the first morning, watching the misty, rough peaks before him, the guide told the group that they were spending the night there. He did not know those peaks were only an hour or two’s journey away and that before dusk they would probably have conquered two or three of them. He had not realized the scale of the country. What he did know was that he was certainly looking at mountains, and he was right. For these peaks, though not so high in altitude, they have all the air of great mountains as well. For vari