Any historical view clearly implies a belief that the past has fundamental significance, one aspect of which is so pervasive as to be easily overlooked: the powerful fact that life must be lived amidst that which was made before.’ (7)

‘Every landscape is an accumulation. The past endures,’ (7)

‘So comprehensive and powerful has been man’s role in changing the face of the earth that the whole landscape has become an artifact.’ (3)

Meinig, D. W. (1979). The Beholding Eye: Ten Versions of the Same Scene. In: D. W. Meinig, ed., The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 1-9.