Predilection for seeing "balance" in the landscape.

Problematic: reflects the notion of "ecological balance" as an assumption about ecological processes: change results in "balance" as equilibrium state

New ecological thinking stresses lack of equilibrium and continual change. See Foster's comments on Thoreau's Journal.

Better for Tuan's meaning: unreflective appreciation, "sentimental," or cultural in the broad sense.

English Village (stereotype)

The Place of Power: The Estate and Park in the village