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Consider briefly an important source of aesthetic pleasure, the magnetic pull of beautiful landscapes.
想一下簡單且重要的審美愉悅的來源，美麗風景的吸引力。
People in very different cultures all over the world tend to like a particular kind of landscape,
全世界在完全不同的文化背景下的人們，都傾向于某種特定的風景，
a landscape that just happens to be similar to the pleistocene savannas where we evolved.
這種風景恰巧與我們進化而來的更新紀大草原相似。
This landscape shows up today on calendars, on postcards,
今天這類風景在日歷中、明信片中、
in the design of golf courses and public parks and in gold-framed pictures that hang in living rooms from New York to New Zealand.
高爾夫球場設計和公共公園中，還有掛在起居室中的鑲金畫框中找到，從紐約到新西蘭都能看到。
It's a kind of Hudson River school landscape featuring open spaces of low grasses interspersed with copses of trees.
這是一種有點像哈得遜河畫派的風景畫，描繪了開闊的原野上低低的草地點綴著些許樹木。
The trees, by the way, are often preferred if they fork near the ground,
順便說一下，通常這些樹開叉離地面較低，
that is to say, if they're trees you could scramble up if you were in a tight fix.
也就是說，如果有緊急情況，你可以爬到這些樹上。
The landscape shows the presence of water directly in view, or evidence of water in a bluish distance,
風景中會在視野可見范圍內能直接看到水流，或是遠處的黛青色暗示著水的存在，
indications of animal or bird life as well as diverse greenery and finally -- get this -- a path or a road,
指明有動物或鳥類生命的跡象，還有各種不同的綠色植物，最后--還有這個--一條小徑或是一條路，
perhaps a riverbank or a shoreline, that extends into the distance, almost inviting you to follow it.
也許是河岸或是海岸，延伸向遠方，幾乎就是在邀請你沿著它走下去。
This landscape type is regarded as beautiful, even by people in countries that don't have it.
這種類型的風景大家一致公認是很漂亮的，甚至生活在沒有這種風景的人們也是這樣認為的。
The ideal savanna landscape is one of the clearest examples where human beings everywhere find beauty in similar visual experience.
理想的熱帶稀樹大草原風景是最顯著的例證之一，在世界各地的人都能找到有相似的視覺體驗的美。
