The tension of proximity/distance in Wylie's 'Landscape' (2007, p.2) derives from the opposing contests of the philosophical and the rational. Of his painting Mont Saint-Victoire, Cezanne writes “the landscape thinks itself in me… and I am its conscience” (Quoted in Wylie, 2007, p. 2). Wylie noted: “Cezanne is not a detached spectator – his gaze enters the landscape, he has entered the landscape” (Wylie, 2007, p. 3). In contrast, Wylie cites historian and literary critic Raymond Williams's argument that “the very idea of ​​landscape implies separation and observation” (quoted in Wylie, 2007, p. 3), with the implication that a landscape presupposes distance . of landscape perceptions are reflected in Wylie's text through the contrary philosophical and pragmatic analysis of the works. The first argues that the relationship between observer and landscape is pure and umbilical where the two are fused into each other and the counter consideration that the landscape should be viewed from a reasonable, detached and logical position. This is, perhaps, analogous to more recent debates with respect to scalar analysis for and against scalar concepts in an ever-changing world. The Dictionary of Human Geography defines landscape as “a cardinal term of human geography that serves as a central point.” object of investigation, organizing principle and interpretive lens for several generations of researchers” (Gregory et al, 2009, pg. 400). The definition has evolved over time with influential geographers, such as Cosgrove defining landscape as a “way of seeing” (Cosgrove, 1984, p. 1). JT Mitchell sees landscape “not as an object to be seen or a text to be read but as a process carried out by… middle of paper… Marston, S.A., Jones, J.P. and Woodward, K. (2005), Human Geography without scale. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 30: pp. 416–432. Massey, Doreen (2006). The landscape as provocation: reflections on mountains in movement. Journal of Material Culture, 11(1-2), pp. 33–48.Mitchell, W. (1994). Landscape and power. 2nd ed. London: University of Chicago Press. pp. 1-29. Neumann, R. (2009). Political ecology: theoretical scale. Advances in human geography. 33 (3), pp. 398-406. Somerville, M. (2007). Space and place in education: speaking again from the margins. Refereeed conference publication of the Australian Education Research Association Annual Conference, Fremantle, WA.Winchester, H. Kong, L. Dunn, K. (2003). Landscapes Ways of imagining the world. Essex: Pearson.Wylie, J (2007). Landscape (key ideas in geography). London: Routledge