Landscape phenomenology

Wylie, J., (2007), Landscape, Oxon, Routledge.

page 139.
Landscape phenomenology often lays stress upon some measure of direct, bodily contact with, and experience of landscape.

page 141
land art/ earth art, - movement began late 1960s, - aim to liberate art from confined, controlled settings e.g. galleries / museums. (spiral jetty).

page 143
landscape is conceptualised in terms of active, embodied and dynamic relations betweem people and land, between culture and nature more generally.
these relations are seen as ongoing and evolving rather than static. forever changing

page 144
landscape becomes the accomplice and expression. ?

p145
we define ourselves - we define the essence of what it is to exist as a human being - in terms of visual detachment. we define ourselves not as creatures in a world but as points of view upon it.

p146
thinking is thus the essence of being human, or, as Descarts puts it, I think therefore I am.

p149
"far from my body being for me no more than a fragment of space, there would be no space at all for me if I had no body" (ibid102).

p150
As I contemplate the blue of the sky I am not set over against it as an acosmic subject: I do not possess it in thought, or spread out toward it some idea of blue.....I abandon myself to it and plunge into this mystery, it thinks itself in me. (Merleau-Ponty, 1969, p214 Merleau - Ponty, 1969 quoted in Wylie, 2007, p150)) It's only when someone puts it into words.

p152
When I look, I see with landscape

p160
Landscape here understood , is not an amount of something, but a quality of feeling, in the end an emotional investment. I aggree.

p161
'through living in it, the landscape becomes a part of us, just as we are part of it' (ibid. p.191).

At its most intense, the boundaries between person and place, or between the self and the landscape, dissolve altogether. (ingold, 2000,p.56, original emphisis).

p.162
the landscape is not so much the object as 'the homeland of our thoughts'. (ingold, 2000,
I like this.
p176
Landscape is more than a way of seeing. Landscape is that with which we see, a perception - with - the - world. When I look I see with landscape.

p178
'my power of imagining is nothing but the persistence of the world around me'. Yes I only think about what I see and hear.

p182
Phenomonology originally takes shape as a lost quest for lost essences and ultimate foundations. ? Is this true?