Landscape vs. Environment — What's the Difference?

A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features. A landscape includes the physical elements of geophysically defined landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds and the sea, living elements of land cover including indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use, buildings, and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and weather conditions.

The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates

All the visible features of an area of land, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal

The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity

Denoting a format of printed matter which is wider than it is high

The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans

Make (a garden or other area of ground) more attractive by altering the existing design, adding ornamental features, and planting trees and shrubs

A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem

An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view

The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms

A picture depicting an expanse of scenery.

The complex of social and cultural conditions affecting the nature of an individual person or community.

The branch of art dealing with the representation of natural scenery.

The general set of conditions or circumstances

The aspect of the land characteristic of a particular region

The entire set of conditions under which one operates a computer, as it relates to the hardware, operating platform, or operating system.

Grounds that have been landscaped

An area of a computer's memory used by the operating system and some programs to store certain variables to which they need frequent access.

An extensive mental view; an interior prospect

The surroundings of, and influences on, a particular item of interest.

The orientation of a page such that the shorter side runs from top to bottom.

The natural world or ecosystem.

To adorn or improve (a section of ground) by contouring and by planting flowers, shrubs, or trees.

All the elements that affect a system or its inputs and outputs.

To arrange grounds aesthetically or maintain grounds as a profession.

A particular political or social setting, arena or condition.

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

(computing) The software and/or hardware existing on any particular computer system.

A sociological aspect of a physical area.

(programming) The environment of a function at a point during the execution of a program is the set of identifiers in the function's scope and their bindings at that point.

A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water, etc.

(computing) The set of variables and their values in a namespace that an operating system associates with a process.

The pictorial aspect of a country.

Act of environing; state of being environed.

A mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides

That which environs or surrounds; surrounding conditions, influences, or forces, by which living forms are influenced and modified in their growth and development.

A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")

The totality of surrounding conditions;

(figuratively) a situation that is presented, a scenario

The area in which something exists or lives;

To create or maintain a landscape.

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. Compare seascape.

The pictorial aspect of a country.

An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view

Painting depicting an expanse of natural scenery

A genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery

An extensive mental viewpoint;

Embellish with plants;

Do landscape gardening;