Landscape: Pattern, Perception and Process

Wherever we are, whenever we are awake, we are experiencing the landscape, from the city street to the remote wilderness. We perceive our surroundings using all our senses. We orientate ourselves by the pattern of the landscape and find pleasure or displeasure in it. Those patterns, and the landscape they comprise, are dynamic, not static. The processes - geological, ecological or cultural - operate over varying time intervals ranging from millions of years to a few hours. Thus landscape is an amalgam of patterns, our perceptions and the processes that change both patterns and perceptions.