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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- © 2001 Maney
- ISSN
- 2040-8153
- eISSN
- 1466-2035
- DOI
- 10.1179/lan.2001.2.1.85
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
(2001), 1, pp. 85–87 © Humphrey Welfare Humphrey Welfare My wife tells me that I am the most unobservant person that she knows. I will most certainly fail to notice what someone is wearing or even what the food is on my plate, but different people are unobservant about different things. Much to her frustration, you only have to put me in a landscape (especially one containing earthworks) or even – with enthusiasm but with far less knowledge – in front of a building, and then I will lock in. I do not know whether this desire to see and to understand landscapes is a blessing or a curse: this continual inquisitiveness, this ‘curious brain’ – a description which is capable of more than one interpretation. It is a matter of perceiving things that others seem not to look at, and of seeking answers to tacit questions that will not stay silent. For those of us with this blessed affliction it does not matter where we are, that inquisitiveness instantly combines with a ready sense of wonder to frame the questions: ‘What have we here?’ and ‘How did it come to be?’ The answers, such as they are,
Journal
Landscapes – Taylor & Francis
Published: Apr 1, 2001