What is Earth's Most Beautiful Place?

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  1. Congrats

    Congrats Bartok Fiend Registered Senior Member

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    If one place was the picture for a description of Earth, what would it be? I was never sure whether beauty on Earth was defined by power, complexity, placidity, or human creation.

    In my opinion, the most beautiful place is Scotland. But I'm sure other people have different places they consider beautiful. I think New Jersey is pretty beautiful, to all you have not been there, or even to those who have, there are spots in New Jersey that are breathtaking. Spiturally high-grasped. And only 15 minutes away from poor forgotten Suburbia.
     
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  3. Mr. G

    Mr. G reality.sys Valued Senior Member

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    The best way to ruin it is to tell people where to find it so I'm not going to tell you.
     
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  5. James R

    James R Just this guy, you know? Staff Member

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    A totally unbiased view

    Australia.

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    <b>My Country</b>
    <i>by Dorothea McKellar</i>

    a poem about Australia

    The love of field and coppice,
    Of green and shaded lanes,
    Of ordered woods and gardens
    Is running in your veins.
    Strong love of grey-blue distance,
    Brown streams and soft, dim skies -
    I know but cannot share it,
    My love is otherwise.

    I love a sunburnt country,
    A land of sweeping plains,
    Of ragged mountain ranges,
    Of droughts and flooding rains.
    I love her far horizons,
    I love her jewel-sea,
    Her beauty and her terror –
    The wide brown land for me!

    The stark white ring-barked forests,
    All tragic to the moon,
    The sapphire-misted mountains,
    The hot gold hush of noon,
    Green tangle of the brushes
    Where lithe lianas coil,
    And orchids deck the tree-tops,
    And ferns the warm dark soil.

    Core of my heart, my country!
    Her pitiless blue sky,
    When, sick at heart, around us
    We see the cattle die –
    But then the grey clouds gather,
    And we can bless again
    The drumming of an army,
    The steady soaking rain.

    Core of my heart, my country!
    Land of the rainbow gold,
    For flood and fire and famine
    She pays us back threefold.
    Over the thirsty paddocks,
    Watch, after many days,
    The filmy veil of greenness
    That thickens as we gaze.

    An opal-hearted country,
    A wilful, lavish land –
    All you who have not loved her,
    You will not understand –
    Though earth holds many splendours,
    Wherever I may die,
    I know to what brown country
    My homing thoughts will fly.
     
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  7. *stRgrL*

    *stRgrL* Kicks ass Valued Senior Member

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    Alaska... in the summer.
     
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  8. Tristan

    Tristan Leave your World Behind Valued Senior Member

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    The Western United States. Montana. And in montana a small town called .... hehe you thought I was going to tell you. its flat there. So you can see the stars. So beautiful

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  9. odin

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    Sussex

    & I don't live there boo hoo.

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  10. BLASTOFF

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    re; most beautyful place on earth

    CONGRATULATIONS you are right but it has to be loch ness it feels like it is surrounded by a kind of magic.

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  11. Congrats

    Congrats Bartok Fiend Registered Senior Member

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    I'd say more the highlands, the mountains, etc. True, Loch Ness is on kind of the 'gateway' to the Highlnads, on that little strip of land that seperates 'upper' Scotland from 'lower' Scotland. I think that Loch Ness is too over-exposed to be beautiful. Well, of course it's beautiful, but not in the sense of it being a pinnacle of beauty. I'd like to think that the most beautiful part of Scotland is the part we see the least of.
     
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  12. kmguru

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    Nepal in spring time. The majestic Himalaya is on one side and the valley (going down and down....) at the other.

    Hawaii

    Colorado rockies

    Konark (India) beach in Full moon

    My backyard in springtime watching stars...

    Anywhere away from people....and beer cans...
     
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  13. Guildenstern

    Guildenstern Registered Member

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    I reckon Israel, Iran, Iraq... Australia, NZ, places in Europe. Some parts of Russia, of FL and AZ in the US. The rivers in China and of the southern America should be remarkable.

    This entire planet is awesome to me. But is it our planet that make us love it, or the ppl that are some times there and some times not? Any one can give an opinion?

    Cheers,

    Guildenstern
     
    Guildenstern, Feb 7, 2002
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  14. BLASTOFF

    BLASTOFF Registered Senior Member

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    THE MOST BEAUTIFULIST PLACE ON EARTH

    I found it the best place on earth, and that is in my garden with my family, sitting next to my pond, and having a BBQ, peace at last.

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  15. Congrats

    Congrats Bartok Fiend Registered Senior Member

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    Yep. Exactly. I could travel all over the world and see every place I ever wanted to see, yet could stilll be inspired by laying in the grass in my backyard after I got home. Your backyard is like a thetaer, where you are very comfortable with what goes on there, and (unless your property backs up to the Garden State Parkway), you feel very comforatble and safe. I suppose comfort and stabilty can act just as strong as awe, so in a sense we should be far more balanced than simply 'looking for adventure, love, or beauty.'
     
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  16. Rick

    Rick ॐ Valued Senior Member

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    I"ll go with KM,
    1.)Nepal,Pokhra specifically where my father and one of my cousins started their Mt.Everest trekking.seriously

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    .they were a group of about 45 people.I,off course preffered to stay in warm bed of Hotel in Pokhra.

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    2.)Hey no one mentioned Sydney,its pretty Kool.
    3.)Niagra Falls.
    4.)Chicago in Winters.

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    5.)Swiss Alps.
    6.)Mt Etna.Sicly.
    7.)Mt Kilimanjaro.
    8.)Zurich
    9.)Hong Kong.
    10.)Kashmir.(I"ve been there twice).
    11.)Maimi Beach.

    bye!
     
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  17. Rick

    Rick ॐ Valued Senior Member

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    Rick, Feb 13, 2002
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  18. esp

    esp Registered Senior Member

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    I'm with Congratulations

    The western highlands of Scotland are truely awe inspiring, especially in the Loch Arkaig, Loch Eil and Sgurr Thulm horseshoe.
    Miles from anywhere, no light pollution, amazing landscape.

    And the occasional RAF fighter jet training over the area is good to watch as well. Sitting in a Canadian Kyak as a part of a flotilla, rafted up watching the Hornet and Tornado fighters playing tag in the valley around you. WOW.

    And where else in the world can you find a place called Rub-a-dub Dub

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  19. Unidentified Flying Object

    Unidentified Flying Object Registered Member

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    I'd say Finland because winter nature in Finland is really beautiful
     
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  20. Cris

    Cris In search of Immortality Valued Senior Member

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    What is Earth's Most Beautiful Place?

    My mind of course.

    Sorry, sorry, just couldn't resist a short ego trip.

    Cris
     
    Cris, Mar 11, 2002
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  21. Rick

    Rick ॐ Valued Senior Member

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    This thread after MIND TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN ACHIEVED(THAT IS TO SAY NON DESTRUCTIVE.

    Well erm...it changes everyday you know i..er can redesign it suit my needs.you see yesterday i was on Mt everest,Today i went to Hawii,tommorrow i"ll be somewhere else whereever it suits me to be...


    bye!
     
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  22. zaleia

    zaleia Registered Member

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    zaleia, Mar 13, 2002
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  23. Adam

    Adam §Þ@ç€ MØnk€¥ Registered Senior Member

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    I know this is disgusting, but the mot beautifful place on Earth is.... wherever my girl is.

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    Adam, Mar 13, 2002
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