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Dutch Windmills of Holland
The Netherlands is so closely associated with windmills, that it's often the first fact people recall about the country. The Dutch have built windmills
for many centuries.
 Windmills have always played a great part in the life of Holland and its inhabitants
Windmills form an important element in the Dutch landscape with its wide horizons, its glittering waters and big clouds floating overhead, without them we
can hardly imagine this landscape, which is unique in the world.
 Planted solidly on the earth, it is an incarnation of force; it seems as if it had grown up quite naturally from the soil, forming an integral part of the
surroundings. It is in perfect harmony with the natural scenery around, built of native brick or thatched with reed as it is. Reed was ready to hand all around
in this country intersected by waterways and it was used as a natural roof-covering by seventeenth-century Dutch architects just as it is today by
architects of country houses. All the primitive structural parts of the windmill reveal simplicity, realism, and practical usefulness; its appearance testifies
to its association with the primeval forces of nature: wind and water.
In the Dutch landscape the windmill is symbolic of the gravity of the Dutch character. Despite the widespread use of the windmill throught the Netherlands,
Dutch mills are in may ways quite primitive - using canvas sails, and turned to wind by hand.
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