ABSTRACT
The concept of human-environment relations
associated with modern landscape architecture
originates predominantly in the Scientific
Revolution which gradually unfolded over two
centuries from 1500-1700. Before 1500 nature
was experienced in terms of organic relation-
ships, symbolised by the great chain of being
(Lovejoy, 1974) in which existed an interde-
pendence of spiritual and material phenomena
concerned with understanding the meaning of
things rather than with prediction and control.
