>>1934706Not sure exactly, but some possible reasons why:
Conifer trees are often plantations. This means that they're young, orderly forests. Deciduous forests are usually older (slower growing trees), meaning a more diverse and natural (as it's rarely cultivated.. because it's slow growing) ecosystems. It "feels" more natural, and is usually more spacious due to the fact that the trees haven't been planted to make optimal use of land perfectly into trees. Not always true of course, many prunus species and apples grow horrendously close together.
Idealisation. The stereotypical English wood is made up of deciduous trees, and people see these woods in disney movies and romanticise them.
Plant litter. Pine trees especially fucking love to lose millions of tiny branches, so the floor ends up covered in dry, pointy sticks. Deciduous forests oven have more welcome ground cover.
Tree anatomy. Similar to above, a lot of coniferous trees grow outwards from the bottom in an A shape. Deciduous trees tend to grow more in a T shape (compared to coniferous trees, at least; the point being they have clear space around the trunk), so it's much easier to sit up against the base of, say, a hornbeam tree than it is a douglas fir. Untended pine trees have a horrendous footprint as far as humans moving through goes.
