The morphology of landscape

The objects which exist together in the landscape exist in interrelation. We assert that they constitute a reality as a whole that is not expressed by aregionalist tradition that described the dynamic interaction between humans and their environment from a longterm historical perspective. As a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Sauer had attended Semple’s lectures, but he came to view the idea of environmental determinants of human behavior as unfounded scientifically and even questionable morally. Sauer felt that the evidence supported a view that did not hold nature constant, but regarded “the scene” of human action (that is, the human-environment relationship) as constantly changing.