A new picture has been hanged on the wall of the front page of this group's website at: http://www.freewebs.com/jorgeg/ It is a watercolor by Dr.Catherine...
Polonius asks Hamlet – What do you read, my lord?. To which Hamlet responds:Words, words, words. Polonius further enquires: -- What is thematter, my lord?; ...
Horatio: I truly sympathise with your complaints.I agree that is not easy to find one's way around the subject, because of it being overcrowed with concepts...
Greeting from Tasmania. I don't know this group well yet, but I feel sure that some of you would be interested in an international nature writing prize which I...
Finding the exchanges apposite to ones embodied, ensouled and enlandscaped personhood. One of the interesting way to unpack some of these ongoing issues is to...
Peter Willis
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Nov 12, 2004 2:40 pm
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Some remarks about the issue raised by Horatio Willburn in "What is the matter we read",I fully agree with him in that the multiplicity of concepts and...
I have been following the discussions with keen interest, but the "What is the matter we read" thread particularly caught my eye. Perhaps in beginning this...
Dear Case, Just a brief note on the meaning of the world appreciation. As I understand it is it more than understanding which I tend to see as a project of the...
Peter Willis
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Nov 18, 2004 2:24 pm
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Peter: Your point about appreciation being something that "moves our heart" and "captures our imagination" is well taken. As is the etymology of the word....
I feel I must question Case Allen’s meanings of “Landscape” and “Appreciation”. He writes (in post 36 of this Board)that, had he stated exactly what...
My apologies to contributors to the Message Board for the "sloppy formatting" of their posts as they appear on the Message Board. The erratic indentations of...
In response to posting # 39, good thoughts; they are well stated. I offer the following paragraphs to more adequately explain my position, and expound upon...
Very much from the sideline: could you kindly send me a short definition of Behavioural Geography ? From my limited P>O>V> a definition of landscape would be...
Alison Smith
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Nov 28, 2004 2:52 pm
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Succinctly put by Small and Witherick (1995), behavioural geography is "an aspect of, or approach to Human Geography which is particularly concerned with the...
"Landscape" is a multidisciplinary matter – the natural sciences, the social sciences, the humanities and the engineering technologies all have a claim....
Continued from Post #44 Why Landscape appears to be a concept of such `high tension' ? Why controversies on the subject get so easily to "boiling point"....
As a contribution to the subject of Landscape Meanings I'd like to draw attention to the definition adopted in the European Landscape Convention, held under...
landscaperian
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Dec 7, 2004 8:32 pm
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The exchange of views on meanings of Landscape Appreciation is progressing nicely, thanks to the valuable contributions from various group members. However,...
Some Group Members have written to me complaining that we are a bit too stiff and "deep". To humor them and to be in tune with the atmosphere of the coming...
I would like to propose a meaning for landscape which, I think, is well suited for landscape appreciation and has the merits of being simple, concise and wide...
Re., definition posted by Jorgeg in #50: "Landscapes are experienced open spaces".I'd think it is interesting to compare it with that of the ELC that I quoted...
landscaperian
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Jan 6, 2005 8:33 am
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Answering Landscaperian post #51: Re., your question regarding considering <landscape as space> in my definition in post #50, versus <landscape as area> in the...
Since cloudscapes and seascapes have been mentioned here in recent Posts I thought of presenting some illustrations. I selected three paintings by Eugene...
... Jorge, thanks for posting the images by Boudin. I'm familiar with some of his oil paintings rather than the pastel and oil on paper studies of clouds....
Jorgeg in Post 50, after proposing a rather original definition of landscapes, says that it is particularly suited for landscape appreciation. I'd like to take...
pibe@...
Jan 18, 2005 3:47 pm
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Ellen - Thanks for this interesting info. It was thought-provoking. Alison ... From: Ellen Fernandez-Sacco To: landscape-appreciation@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Pibe's endorsement of that comment from Phil Leinart, "It is up to the viewer of the landscape - be it painter, ecologist, poet, paleontologist, tourist,...
Peter Willis
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Jan 19, 2005 12:35 pm
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First, I want to thank Pibe (Post #55) for "endorsing" my thoughts regarding the diversity –i.e. the range of variability – in "landscape appreciation"...
This post got bounced for some reason; I'm sending it again. Thanks to jorge for remembering my "obsession" for clouds while posting the Boudin pieces. The...