Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
I get excited by landscape.
Landscape affects you.
Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.
Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
The landscape you grow up in speaks to you in a way that nowhere else does.
Use description of landscape to help you establish the emotional tone of the scene. Keep notes of how other authors establish mood and foreshadow events by describing the world around the character.
Landscape is more than flat land covered by floodwater, the seeping of peat bogs, a river of liquid pewter viewed from a sentry tower. It's an influence on what a person values, what she is willing to sacrifice or argue for.
Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.
For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.