Landscape reading is a learned language that fosters intimacy with place

Evidence

Just as intimacy is necessary if we are going to forge close bonds with friends and lovers, it is also necessary if we hope to bond with nature and our place. As one learns to see the history of a local landscape, a deep level of intimacy with place can develop. The story of place comes forth as the landscape reveals its experience through our careful attention. But in order to see and hear this story we need to learn a new language—one we can use to read the landscape. — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics, 9

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels Soundscape’s ‘listening as reading a site’s story’ and the nature-interpretation-as-pedagogy thread of the course. — connects to: Proximity and intimacy to a place can blind observers to its disturbance history — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to…, 7; Diagnostic forest features read like the words of a narrative language — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to…, 10; Landscape reading answers some histories while opening further questions — Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to…, 28 (+7 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Related

• Reading a landscape’s deeper music requires long familiarity and attentive stillness. (similarity 0.83)
• Landscape reading answers some histories while opening further questions (similarity 0.82)
• Proximity and intimacy to a place can blind observers to its disturbance history (similarity 0.82)
• Diagnostic forest features read like the words of a narrative language (similarity 0.82)
• Embodied memory and felt landmarks constitute a profound knowing of place (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Reading a landscape’s deeper music requires long familiarity and attentive stillness. #expands (0.85) — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 529
• Reading can become a proactive act that transforms both object and reader #expands (0.83)
• Landscape beings raise a person into their sense of place and world #corroborates (0.82) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 83
• Embodied memory and felt landmarks constitute a profound knowing of place #expands (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 40