Of Leading Tickles, Blow Me Downs and Other Cultural Ties to the Land
Murton (2011) quotes landscape architect John Corner when he says that landscape is “neither universally shared nor manifested in the same way across cultures and time. … To assume that every society shares an American, English, or French view of landscape, or that other societies possess any version of landscape at all, is to wrongly impose on other cultures one’s own image” (Murton, 2011, p. 75). Many people are surprised to find out that the way that people see…