ABSTRACT
The theory of society's relationship to nature takes as the point of departure for the development of its approach the distinction between ecological, and issues of environmental science on the other, the latter being concerned with investigating the manner of the incorporation of elements of nature into the reproduction of societal practice. The term 'society's relationship to nature' refers to the distinction between the natural and the social within society, undertaken for certain ends. There are many indications that interest in natural history has, since the second half of the eighteenth century, been closely tied to problems of the justification of theories regarding the history of humankind, and/or the causes for the emergence of bourgeois society. The link, by means of which the human being living in nature realizes the landscape, is the building, the structure. Nature, architecture, the human being, these are the constituent of elements of the landscape.
