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Land that decided trees were optional and committed fully to brooding.
means Open, windswept upland with poor acidic soil, covered in heather, grasses, and peat rather than forest.
from From Old English mor, meaning barren waste or marsh — a word that has always sounded slightly disappointed in the ground it describes.
Carbon vaultPeat stores more carbon than forests do.
Man-madeMuch moorland is cleared, formerly-wooded landscape.
Literary hauntBronte novels run on its weather.