nvironment is not my creation; it is the creation. I do not constitute it; it has constituted me; and now it seems arrogant and myopic to speak of foreground and background, of what I frame on my horizons. Environment is the ground of my being, and we can remove the 'my' because environment is the common ground of all being. Landscape appreciation requires stretching environment into Environment. My mother could appreciate her Alabama lived environment; she did not need science to do that. But she could appreciate only her native range sector, a residential landscape,.
