Question How has this text challenged your ways of thinking about the connection between people and landscapes? "The Pine Trees," by Brooke Davis, is a poem which looks into the significance of the connection between people and landscapes. This challenges my original thoughts throughout the poem through exploring the deeper emotions of the character. Brooke Davis supports the sentiment that landscape is able to provide a brief escape from the harsh reality of life while showing how an undeniable stagnancy towards the connection to landscape is prevalent in the life of the protagonist but that a deep understanding of the experiences of life can change this stagnancy. Through this she is able to show how the connection between people and landscape is supported in many forms of life but especially in her own. This article shows that people's connection to a landscape can provide a brief escape from the real world. Firstly, "The Pine Trees" proposes a greater understanding of the connection between people and landscapes through the idea that landscapes can be used as sanctuaries for people, giving them a brief escape from the life they are in. This is evident through the characters descriptions of her emotions. "Remember how slow time could be? The grass in the paddock near The Pine Trees was almost way past my waist, and I could collapse into it, looking up at the sky for hours. Was it hours? Or minutes?  Through the use of reparation to the aspect of time ˜hours' ˜slow time' ˜minutes' the character grasps the fact that in this place time ceases to exist. The use of the rhetorical questions emphasises this aspect that in this landscape time is something that is just there, it does not define the moment and in this landscape seems to pass at a rapid pace. This idea that landscapes can be used as an escape for people is the reinforced later in the poem when the character returns home after her mother's death. Although now grown up