smells, the lighting, the colors and shapes-the landscape of my child-
hood has become part of my flesh and blood and When | return to it,
l am coming home. Landscape also contains history. People have always
lived in landscapes and worked in landscapes. Sometimes the landscape
suffers from having us live and work in it.
Nonetheless, for better or
for worse, it is there that the history of our involvement with the earth
is stored. And that is probably why we call it a cultural landscape. So,
along with the feeling that l am part of nature, the landscape also gives
me the sense of being connected to history.
Where does this depth of feeling that we all associate with landscapes
come from? l think there are special moments when we, as human
beings, truly realize that we belong to living nature, that we-come