The pre-flood world

Made this observation decades ago, but it's worth repeating: Greek myth seems to provide the impressions of the pre-flood world better than anything. Greek myth and the Homeric epics that is... Not saying it's historically accurate,  just saying Greek myth in general has the feel of the pre-flood world and gives the best glimpse here and there...

Other than Greek myth some of the description (and visual art) of the New World (America) given by its first European explorers and colonists, and even to the second and third generation and more, have the sense of a little bit of pristine, pre-flood nature. The wilds of the forests seemed of different scale than elsewhere. The natural lighting seemed like a heavier sky. Explorers described the Ohio river as crystaline and clearer than any river they'd ever seen. We had gigantic trees as well, before blight took them all out.