Nature
The upper western part of the Ore Mountains, known in German as Erzgebirge, belongs to the Ore Mountains/Vogtland Nature Park. The eastern part, called the Eastern Ore Mountains (Osterzgebirge), is a protected landscape. Further small areas are nature reserves and natural monuments, and are protected by the state.
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“Art compares to nature like wine to the grape.”
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There is society where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but nature more,”
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