I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this:
Cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small,
Self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed … or they intimidate me.
But the landscape, if l give it the chance, offers me freedom and serenity. Nature has a different sense of time.
Time is big in the landscape while in the city it is condensed, just like the city's space.
ln connection with landscape I think of the term beauty as well, because of my Romantic gaze. | have no agricultural access to the landscape; l do not see it as a means of production but experience
it above all in sensual and aesthetic terms. And my perception of it changes depending on whether it is a natural landscape or a cultural landscape. To me, a purely natural landscape high up in the mountains, for example, is basically always beautiful. Even when nature's landscapes are harsh, rugged, aloof or barren and even when they frighten me