What is landscape?

Answer 1

landscape is anything from designing flower beds and planting plants around a home or business, or park, to create a desired feel or design. flowers, bushes, trees, rocks, dirt, mulch, and bricks are some resources used by landscapers to design a plan.

Landscape: “a picture representing a section of natural, inland scenery, as of prairie, woodland, mountains...an expanse of natural scenery seen by the eye in one view.”

Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary

“Landscape associates people and place. Danish landskab, German landschaft, Dutch landschap, and Old English landscipe combine two roots. “Land” means both a place and the people living there. “Skabe” and “schaffen” mean “to shape”; suffixes “-skab” and “-schaft,” as in the English “-ship,” also mean association, partnership. Still strong in Scandinavian and German languages, these original meanings have all but disappeared from English.”

Anne Whiston Spirn, The Language of Landscape

Landscapes are dynamic, shaped by ongoing physical, biological, social, and spiritual processes: motion, growth, and exchange; birth, death, and decay; communication, building, learning; dreaming and worship.Processes connect the organic and inorganic, the animate and inamimate, the physical world and the organisms that inhabibit it.

A landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the built environment. Landscape may also signify the objects around one in a building.

The word landscape comes from the Dutch word landschap, from land (patch or area that comes from the Basquish word landa meaning labored earth) and the suffix -schap, corresponding to the English suffix "-ship". Landscape, first recorded in 1598, was borrowed as a painters' term from Dutch during the 16th century, when Dutch artists were on the verge of becoming masters of the landscape genre. The Dutch word landschap had earlier meant simply “region, tract of land” but had acquired the artistic sense, which it brought over into English, of “a picture depicting scenery on land.”

Landscape art is the depiction of scenery in landscape painting, landscape photography or other media.
Landscape architecture is the art of planning, designing, and managing public and private landscapes and gardens. Related terms include:
Landscape design is the design of open space urban or rural areas
Landscape engineering is the technical aspect of landscape architecture
Landscape planning is the planning of large scale and/or long term landscape development projects
Landscape management is the care of human-made or natural landscapes
Landscape gardening is the practice of designing large scale estate gardens, and is usually applied to the 18th and 19th centuries, and seen as a precursor to landscape architecture.
Landscape ecology is a subdiscipline of ecology that investigates the ecological causes and consequences of spatial pattern, process and change in landscapes.
In anthropological terms, landscape refers to the material manifestation of the relations between humans and their environments. It is a product of the dialectic of biophysical environments and culture.
Landscape orientation of a rectangular page, painting or other graphic means that the longer axis is horizontal. (So named because landscape paintings usually have this orientation.) When the long axis is vertical, it is called portrait orientation.

Answer 2

geographical features, such as mountains, lakes, river, plains, hills, valleys....