Landscape and Environment : a conceptual distinction

In this article, I aim to show how the concept of environment inevitably leads to contradictory consequences when it is taken as a major category of a worldview that seeks to recognize, appreciate and protect natural spaces: on the one hand, it devalues the role of each particular element, subsuming it into sets and wholes; on the other, it rigidly opposes the human and the non-human as two separate spheres. On the contrary, a world view founded on the category of Landscape, a synthetic category which involves a natural foundation with human dimensions, allows resuming harmonies and modes of living in a world marked by profound divisions and worrying signs of disintegration of the human.