Drawing upon the concept of space and place of Yi-Fu Tuan, this paper examines the relationship between space and place in the field of the human geography and focuses on D. H. Lawrence`s sensuous representation of space in The Rainbow. In a highly industrialized society, many critics constantly seeking to restore the original life force of the modern life have paid attention to Lawrence`s sense of place. The problem is that although the ideas of place and space, seen from the perspective of human geography, are bound up with each other, few critics have focused on the concept of space in the study of Lawrence. On the basis of Tuan`s sense of space and place, which is in the same vein of E. Relph`s, this paper illuminates how modern society has degenerated space as simple empirical tools and lost the meaning of space in a radical change. According to Tuan, the sense of space is more abstract than the idea of place. When the characters experience the abstract space and transform it with value, the space becomes a concrete place. Travelling around the world, Lawrence suggests a possible approach to experience abstract space and sense the ``spirit of place``. Transforming of the an abstract space into a concrete place is visualized in the opening scene with an illustration of Marsh Farm, the experience of Will and Anna in Lincoln Cathedral in chapter 7, and the description of a standing rainbow in the last chapter. By bringing attention to the significance of space described in different levels of things and people, this paper tries to show how an abstract space is transformed into a specific place.