natural surroundings
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When they finally got to take stock in such tranquil and picturesque surroundings, they got to explore exactly what it was they wanted to get out of their music.
From BBC • Apr. 18, 2015
“Voyage” is not driven by the usual machinery of plot and exposition, but rather by a succession of moods, an emotional logic alternately reflected and obscured by the picturesque surroundings.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2013
If the encouragement of picturesque surroundings could have made a painter of him he would have been a master.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
I may add that the picturesque surroundings, not unlike those of some city on the Mediterranean, greatly enhance the pleasure of a stay on the Isthmus, now that they can be enjoyed without squalid accompaniments.
From The Panama Canal and its Makers by Cornish, Vaughan
The fresh country atmosphere and the picturesque surroundings of the journey had done more to cheer M. de Montalvan's spirits than a college of physicians could have accomplished.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 by Various
