ABSTRACT
Many geographers have found their thinking echoed in William Kirk’s work on the role of culture in the development of the landscape. His ‘eye of culture’ sees what it chooses in the land and turns the land into what it wants. For years I, too, have tried to show that the images conjured up by the land create an image geography that then determines how the land will be developed.1 In pursuing these ideas I owe a great deal to William Kirk and am happy to join in this collection of essays on the theme of the behavioural environment. My wife, too, honoured his ideas in her concern with teaching the cultural background to human perception of the earth. In her paper on ‘The teaching of value geography’ she wrote, ‘Geographers…are involved in people who have unique views and feelings. Based on these views and feelings, people develop values, and based on these values they make choices. These choices affect the earth and change the landscape.’2
