ABSTRACT
The ‘ultimate richness’ is life as captured in the varying intensity and wide diversity of human environmental experience: pleasure gardens and city streets, rainsoaked mountains and hidden valleys, Blackpool on a public holiday and downtown Kansas City on a Saturday afternoon. We all search for environments that satisfy our basic needs: shelters in which to nurture the young and in which to die; places which afford us pleasure and mental stimulation; environments that supply an indication of our past and of what the future might hold. In seeking to satisfy these needs people will be attracted towards some environments and repelled by others, but in the process of finding their own special places they may find themselves. Biographies will become intimately connected with environments for, regardless of circumstance and position, individuals emerge to hold and create their own landscapes. 2
