barry lopez

I develop a sense of history in Lopez's essay when he talks about learning the landscape through the people that are indigenous to the area and are more inclined to know the weather patterns then to know know current events. Through these people Lopez gets a sense of history by learning the lay of the land and how it has changed and how the environment has changed the area.

Lopez creates a sense of culture through the history and also through the landscape and how the landscape effects the people. He says that unless you spend time somewhere its hard to understand the history and culture, and even then you need to go to the country and talk to the people before you go to a museum. I think he was trying to tell us in this article that to understand culture you need to understand landscape and the people and through them you can understand culture because going to a museum does not show the significance of the culture.