The scent of nature was in the air, it made Cole uncomfortable. On earth finding a wild stretch of land of significant size is almost impossible, unless of course those are designated farm lands. Humanity had spread so much they're in the trillions, spread out across the planet that's full to bursting with overpopulation and amongst the stars and moons above them.
So because of that the only things that could be considered remotely wild and natural are it's oceans, if you get past the mountain of trash floating on it surface. Either way Pangea was far different than Cole expected, even if to him it seems more like the entire place is infested with ectoplasmic ghost like lifeforms, the air just smelt so different he was more at home to it than any other place.