B 1.5 Landscape as a document or a text

"Since it is a visible reality, a landscape can be read and interpreted by human beings as a document, as a text (Ducan, 1990). For men, they are forces and beings which give a sense to cosmos, the universe, nature, society and the existence of everyone. Landscape is the source of many feelings and experiences: corporal, religious, aesthetic. It contributes to the building of individual or collective identities."

(This is an excerpt from the text by Professor Paul Claval “THE IDEA OF LANDSCAPE”)