人类环境包括人为环境和天然环境两个方面，其主体是地理环境。人类环境不仅有空间的延伸，还有时间的延续。时间是人类发展的空间。研究人类环境应该具备时间意识，具体为历史意识、现实意识、量化意识和未来意识。时间意识始终使人类环境及其研究处于被质疑和被探索的状态 Human environment, including man-made environment and natural environment in two aspects, the main geographical environment. The human environment not only has the extension of space, but also the continuation of time. Time is the space for human development. The study of the human environment should have time awareness, specifically for the historical awareness, realistic awareness, quantitative awareness and future awareness. Time consciousness always puts the human environment and its research in a state of being questioned and explored