on 3/8/06 4:40 AM, david G Orr at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> The literature of landscapes and culture is IMMENSE! One
> sort of ancillary volume is reread by me personally again
> and again. It presents open expanse and vast unbroken
> landscapes from another perspective. read Barry Lopez's
> wondrous Arctic Dreams.    dgo


And let's not forget another classic -  William Cronon's, "Changes in the
Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England."  It's full of
ideas applicable to any region....

joe dent