"...to borrow Inglis's [1] words again, 'a landscape is the most solid appearance in which a history can declare itself.' Thanks to their solidity, features of the landscape remain available for inspection long after the movement that gave rise to them has ceased. If, as Mead argued [2], every object is to be regarded as a 'collapsed act', then the landscape as a whole must likewise be understood as the taskscape in its embodied form: a pattern of activities 'collapsed' into an array of features."
[Tim Ingold: 'The perception of the environment: essays on livelihood, dwelling and skill']
1. F. Inglis: 'Nation and community: a landscape and its morality', Sociological Review 25, 1977.
2. G. H. Mead: 'The process of mind in nature' in 'George Herbert Mead on Social Psychology', A. Strauss, 1964.
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