Dec 28, 2020
Decades ago there was a moment of speaking of landscape as a manuscript equivalent to the print books of the major Abramic religions. That was a metaphor, but it has since returned and been used to great effect by Robert Macfarlane and, before him by Barry Lopez.
Their great strength as “readers” of landscape is that they have absorbed the sensations of the place that is their manuscript. Sensations, the basic brain access to the encoded world, are what imprint us.
