De montes e montanhas à paisagem – reflexões sobre sua abordagem estética

Hills and mountains engage in the life of places, as well as in the history of landscape’s conceptions. The aim of this article is to discuss about the approaches to aesthetic sensitivity in the landscape in relation to the forms of expressive topography and its adequacy to crucial issues of our current spatial transformations. It begins with the concern about reducing the question of the aesthetic to the character of mental representations of nature, that still remain linked to these formations. It comes to the consideration of the importance of aesthetic awareness as an expression of a human complicity with the forms of the Earth.