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By: Paul Zayer

Shaping the landscape or landscaping if you prefer means any process or activity that modifies the features of a piece of land in a visible way, such as living elements of flora and fauna, landforms, such as terrain shape and elevation or bodies of water, human elements, like structures and fences, and abstract factors such as elements that can manage the lighting and /or weather conditions.

Landscaping is a highly aesthetic landscape art form that demands a quantity of useful knowledge having to do with plant knowledge, practical applications and working with many tools. It could be stated that the most early landscaper was the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who spent a great deal of time pondering the environment and different scopes of landscaping.

Where most early landscapers argued that real landscaping modifies fields or plants directly, like in the activities of cultivation of food crops, Thales rejected this explanation of landscaping or shaping the landscape, arguing that any aspect of the physical world affecting someone's visual perception of portion of land was a correct application of landscaping. Landscape and landscaping are surrounding each and everyone of us.

Both Plato and Aristotle had nothing but praise for Thales philosophical modeling related to landscape and landscaping, as well as how his theories could be applied elsewhere in philosophical examination. G.E. Moore also cited Thales in many of his own philosophical works expressing how philosophical discourse and inquiry has led to the truest forms of human evolution and understanding.

Then in the 1800s many philosophers debated whether or not visual beauty should even be accepted as a required objective of landscaping or managing landscape, though by this time a lot of western philosophical thinkers had decided to reject the idea of an objective aesthetic standard for any type of art, whether landscaping or architecture

Since the later half of the 20th century, professional landscapers and practitioners have experimented with stunning visual landscape panoramas that have since become generally accepted as falling into the category of landscaping, at least in the occident.

More often than not we do not appreciate the quiet beauty of great landscaping designs. In our busy life the time to look around and enjoy the beauty around us has become a luxury. Next time you go out of your work place on a nice sunny day, why don't you sit quietly on a park bench and be aware of the landscape around you.

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