Anne McCaffrey (Dragonriders of Pern series) moved from America to Ireland, where she enjoyed, among other things, the “lovely vistas.” It’s not something that most writers can manage, of course. But she made a good point about the importance of having something to look at:

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale…