Much of this beauty may be attributed to nature, but in fact much of it is the result of purposeful human activity. Landscape design involves itself with the shaping of the landscape for human living. It concerns itself with the establishment of human relations between flora, structures, surfacing, and such environmental conditions as rainfall, sunlight, soil type and drainage patterns.
Landscape design is an appeal to human nature.
Large areas of our cultural landscape have resulted from utilitarian, especially agricultural, endeavors. We have evolved from an agrarian society. These designs often have no conscious aesthetic content and are rather amorphous by context. However, with the passage of time these functional designs became an expression of a place purely by repetition of ritual human activity. Other sites reflect a conscious ordering of the environment with the primary intent to provide beauty, pleasure and delight.