Natural landscape: Landscape, Nature, Wilderness, Cultural Landscaping, Invasive Species, Artifact, Decomposition, Landscape Art

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Natural landscapes are landscapes beyond cultural influence. "A natural landscape is one that is unaffected by human activity", SES501 Landscape Ecology and GIS, Keith Ferdinands, Charles Darwin University, July 2004, (1970). A natural landscape is intact when all living and nonliving elements are free to move and change. The nonliving elements distinguish a natural landscape from a wilderness. A wilderness includes areas within which natural processes operate without human interference, but a wilderness must contain life. As implied, a natural landscape may contain either the living or nonliving or both. In his extensive travels in South America, Alexander von Humbolt became the first to conceptualize a natural landscape. A discussion of the transition of a pristine landscape state to a humanized landscape state which includes the human-modified landscape, the primeval landscape, the ancient landscape, the undisturbed wilderness and the managed landscape can be found in Vale, 2002. The natural landscape is a place under the current control of natural forces and free of the control of people for an extended period of time.