ABSTRACT
There are at least two other significant concepts of landscape, which have in common an element of scale. Landscape surely is ‘out there’; it is not indoors, though we may bring it in – in frames, or in pots to hang on our walls, or to decorate our rooms. For most people also it is not just outside the front door, unless one happens to live with a picture window across a protected landscape. In the aesthetic tradition we saw how the landscape genre of picture-making assumed a certain distance and scale. A landscape would be big enough to have a foreground, middle ground and background; it was not just a plant on a suburban lawn. This idea that landscape is quite big is also shared by both these other concepts: the concept of landscape as wilderness and the concept of landscape as a scale of operations.
