landscape … always greets us as a space, as environment, as that within which "we" (figured as "the figures" in the landscape) find - or lose - ourselves … An account of landscape … has to trace the process by which landscape effaces its own readability and naturalizes itself and must understand that process in relation to what might be called "the natural histories" of its own beholders. What we have done and are doing to our environment, what the environment in turn does to us…
-W.S.T. Mitchell
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