‘Ones Interaction with the Landscape Can Tell You Who You Are’

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The way in which a person interacts with their landscape can release a certain perception of how they are viewed by the public eye. They say never judge a book by its cover, but is it wrong to judge a person by the way they interact with their landscape? Individuals interpret their landscape in many a way, some may acknowledge the trees, other the cars, some may me fixated on the birds in the sky. Your landscape is how you determine your surroundings, it makes you who you are and can be drawn from life experiences, you cannot put on majestic goggles and view how somebody else perceive their landscape it is a transformation that happens within. ‘Conviction without experience makes for harshness’ Flannery O'Connor, until you have taken the same path in life that somebody else has, until you have experienced what they have you will never fully grasp their understanding of why they have done the things they have done, or why there views are different to yours or somebody else’s. Life experiences determine how we view things and in what perspective we view them, two people who come from the same area or same family can view one situation in a different way to the other, this may be because one of them may have experienced something in an alternative manor or they were brought up with morals or beliefs that gives them that opinion. A man who have lived most of his life and is near death, will look at the world in a way no other person does, he may appreciate the little things that others take for granted, the way the wind hits your face when you go outside the smells of the world, the food we eat. Until something is taken from you or nearly taken from you it is taken for granted it is the way which we are built until something is discovered or put in front of us we can do without it but ones this thing has been seen and used by everyone who surrounds us it becomes a

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