Doing shaping to the landscape or landscaping if you prefer means any activity or process that modifies the features of a portion of land in a noticeable way, such as living elements of fauna and flora, landforms, such as ground shape and elevation or bodies of water, human elements, like structures and fences, and abstract factors such as elements to somewhat manage the lighting and /or weather conditions.

Landscaping is a highly aesthetic landscape art form that requires a volume of practical knowledge having to do with plant knowledge, practical applications and operating with many tools. It could be stated that the most early landscaper was the Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, who spent a great deal of time pondering the nature and different scopes of landscaping.

Where a lot of early landscapers argued that real landscaping modifies fields or plants directly, like in the activities of farming of food crops, Thales rejected this definition of shaping the landscape or landscaping, saying that any aspect of the physical world affecting one’s visual perception of portion of land was a correct application of landscaping. Landscape and landscaping are all around us each and everyone of us.

Both Plato and Aristotle had approved Thales philosophical modeling involving landscape and landscaping, as well as how his theories can be applied elsewhere in philosophical exploration. G.E. Moore also mentioned Thales in many of his own philosophical works explaining how philosophical inquiry and discourse has led to the very true forms of human evolution and understanding.