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For other uses, see Landscape (disambiguation).
Photograph of a landscape
Photograph of a landscape
Oeschinen Lake in the Swiss Alps, an example of a highly diversified landscape.
Oeschinen Lake in the Swiss Alps, an example of a highly diversified landscape. Oeschinen Lake (German Oeschinensee) is a Lake in the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 4 km east of Kandersteg in the Oeschinen valley The Swiss Alps (Schweizer Alpen Alpes suisses Alpi svizzere Alps svizras are the central portion of the Alps Mountain range that lies within

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. The phrase built environment refers to the man-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places

Etymology

The word landscape comes from the Dutch word landschap, from land (directly equivalent to the English word land) and the suffix -schap, corresponding to the English suffix "-ship". Dutch ( is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people 22 million of which are from the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States A LAND attack is a DoS (Denial of Service attack that consists of sending a special poison spoofed packet to a computer causing it to lock up English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States

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'.

See also

The European Landscape Convention, also known as the Florence Convention was initiated by the Congress of Regional and Local Authorities of the Council of Europe. Geomorphology (from Greek: γη ge, "earth" μορφή morfé, "form" and λόγος Logos, "knowledge" Hardscape, in the practice of Landscaping, refers to the paved areas like Streets & Sidewalks large business complexes & Housing developments Landscape ecology is the science and art of studying and improving the relationship between spatial pattern and ecological processes on a multitude of scales and organizational levels (Wu 2006 2008 Landscape history is the study of the way in which mankind has changed the physical appearance of the environment - both present and past The term mediascape describes the way that visual imagery impacts the world The Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape (PECSRL is an international network of landscape researchers whose interest focus on the past A seascape is a Photograph, Painting, or other Work of art which depicts the Sea. Softscape refers to the elements of Landscape that comprise live horticultural elements A soundscape is a Sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. The term taskscape is often credited to social anthropologist Tim Ingold.

Dictionary

landscape

-noun

  1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
  2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.
  3. The pictorial aspect of a country.
  4. (printing) a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer then the vertical sides
  5. A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in 'designed landscape')

-verb

  1. To do various grounds maintenance.
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