“ In our culture, people are so used to ignoring their experiences of the places around them that working with these experiences as part for our procedure for taking care of our cities and landscapes may mean that we have to get rid of long held habits of thought.” (Hiss, 1991, p99)

Drs Stephen and Rachel Kaplan...think that we may have an inborn preference for winding paths, which provide what they call “mystery”: Landscapes exhibit “mystery” when they “give the impression that one could acquire new information if one were to ravel deeper into the scene.”

According to the Kaplans...”mystery...is a factor of great power in predicting preferences for scenes of the outdoor environment.” (Hiss, 1991, p39)

Hiss T (1991) The Experience of Place: New Ways of Looking at and Dealing with our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside, Vintage Books