In terms of landscape appreciation that you bring up, what about appreciation of
landscape via the auto? In reading some texts I have the sense of a static
appreciation--
literally standing in a field or seascape. The automobile's windshield
pre-frames the
landscape, a moving picture as it were, or the airplane window of an aerial
view. How is
this factored into perception? There's a curious relationship between the auto,
the
airplane, the movie theatre seat that frames space, and probably influences
responses for
some, beyond the window or the picture frame.

Ellen

--- In landscape-appreciation@yahoogroups.com, "tittivulus" <tittivulus@...>
wrote:
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> Since everyone here seemed to be talking about John Jakle book I had
> no choice but to buy the book; just to not be left out of the
> conversation. . I was surprised gladly. I remember writing a jeux des
> paroles in this message board about a certain book: " Very easy to read
> but not easy to understand" . Prof. Jakle's book is not one of those but
> one: "Not only easy to read but easy to understand" . That's a rare
> quality in Geografy books. Books by old geografers were simply but
> boring, books by 'the new geografers" tend to be fascinating but
> abstruse. Not to blame the authors; not easy to write clearly when you
> are not sure where you are getting to.
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> By the way... I also wanted to say something about Willburnh latest
> posts on tourism. Quite agree with most of what she said. One thing
> bother me though: she talks often of landscape appreciators as being
> this or that. I say there isn't such persons as 'landscape appreciators'
> , at least not in the sense of some people being violinist, or a
> gangster or a poet. What there is, is some people with the ability to
> appreciate landscapes when and if they want to do it. Not a tittle or a
> profesion and not even a hobby.
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> I doubt very much that (even among the illustrous members of this
> forum) there are people that embark on trips to a place with the aim to
> appreciate the landscapes there. They might go, as tourists, to enjoy,
> admire, contemplate, marvel, etc. etc., and if they have the ability to
> appreciate them, d'autant mieux . But, as no one would say of himself:
> "I am a landscape admirer or contemplator", neither is to say "I am a
> landscape appreciator".
>