Holland and nature ?

Around here, within easy cycling range, a great variety of landscapes. Each with its particular fauna and flora.
This exeptional variation is due to the location and history of the region. A lower part where sea and rivers rushed and flooded, depositing sand and clay in an ever changing and very dynamic landscape. So we have lowland with lakes and moors. And rivers, now tamed with dikes, meandering through pastures and peat land.

A higher part, formed by glaciers of the last Ice Age. Low sandy hills with moraine remnants, pebbles and boulders.
Substantial woods, large park-like parts, even larger urban areas, and of course, still the wide open space of classic Dutch grass-land : the polders.
Especially the birdlife can be pretty spectacular, so bring your binoculars !

So, still plenty of nature around. But original nature ? No, certainly not.
Man started changing the land very early in time, and changed the landscapes beyond recognition. See also routes Millennia and Sinking land.
So what we see today is mostly man-made nature. But as most of it is at least several hundred years old, it developed a beauty of its own.