Text … Dramatic Peak District, with its genuine steep fells, never fails to astonish me. A car will【C1】______you all round the Peak District【C2】______a morning. It is nothing【C3】______a crumpled green handkerchief.【C4】______, we hear of search parties going out there to find【C5】______travelers. I have never explored this region properly, and so it remains to me a country of【C6】______. I could go on with this list of surprises, but perhaps you had better make your own. Another【C7】______of our landscape is its exquisite moderation. It has been born of a compromise【C8】______wildness and tameness, between Nature and Man. One【C9】______for this is that it contains that exquisite【C10】______between Nature and Man. The fence and the gate are man-made, but are not severely regular and trim【C11】______they would be in some other countries. The trees and hedges, the grass and【C12】______flowers, all suggest that Nature has not been forced【C13】______obedience. The irregularity and coloring of the cottage make it【C14】______snugly into the landscape, and you feel it might have grown there, because it looks nearly as much a piece of natural history as the trees. In some countries, the cottage would have declared, 'Man, the drainer, the tiller, the builder, has settled here. ' In this English【C15】______there is no such direct opposition. Men and trees and flowers, we feel, have all settled down comfortably together. The motto is, 'Live and let live. ' This exquisite【C16】______between Nature and Man explains in part the charm of the older Britain. The whole town fitted snugly into the landscape,【C17】______they were no more than bits of woodland; and roads went【C18】______the easiest way as【C19】______as rivers. It was impossible to say where cultivation ended and wild life began. It was a country rich【C20】______trees, birds, and wild flowers, as we can see to this day. 【C1】