ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the relations between place and landscape. Structural facets of place concern links or relations between locations. They set places into wider landscape contexts and encompass the idea of geographical space. Places like Wasdale are constantly becoming: rather than just existing they change and respond. Places have ‘rhythms’, they shift and morph according to different patterns and influences. Scientists from disciplines concerned with aspects of biological and physical landscape all tend to have their own conception of place and space. Landscapes are perceived and imagined, usually by being seen. The term ‘landscape’ has several meanings that reflect views taken at different times and in different languages and societies. The first geographical notion of landscapes came from Alexander von Humboldt and others, who used the term ‘landscape’ to capture the total character of a region, including its natural, cultural and aesthetic qualities.
