In everyday life, most people, when asked what a landscape is, respond: "everything that is beautiful, such as flowers, gardens, parks". Other people will say: “everything I see is a landscape”. Are these people right or wrong? I would say neither. Let's see why.
Landscape, for Geography, means two things: everything that the human senses (touch, hearing, smell, sight) can capture. Everything your eyes can see is a landscape, everything your hearing hears is a landscape. Therefore, all human beings can feel is a landscape.
For example, if you close your eyes at this moment, you can still feel that in front of you there is a computer, on the side there are some walls and, if you pay even more attention, you can hear that outside passing cars. You don't see it, but you feel the landscape.
Since the landscape is everything that is within our perception, it will always be a heritage, that is, it will also be part of our memory, being a kind of memory of the past. Ask your parents or grandparents what the landscape looked like in your city when they were children and what the landscape looks like today, if there is any difference.
Transformation and heritage of the landscape of Brasília, the federal capital
Thus, the landscape can be divided into two:
Natural landscape: one that man has not yet modified, consisting of natural objects such as rivers, trees and mountains.
A waterfall is a natural landscape because it was not built by man
Cultural Landscape: one that man has already modified, consisting of social objects such as buildings, cities, etc.
A city is a cultural landscape because it was created by man
By Regis Rodrigues
Graduated in Geography
