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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463871003321

Titolo

The native landscape reader / / edited by Robert E. Grese

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press in association with Library of American Landscape History, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-61376-184-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (335 p.)

Collana

Critical Perspectives in the History of Environmental Design

Disciplina

712

Soggetti

Landscape protection

Natural areas

Landscape design

Essays

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page                 ; Copyright Page                     ; Table of Contents                        ; Series Editor's Preface ; Preface              ; Introduction                   ; Part I: Appreciation of Nature                                     ; Chapter 1: Thomas Cole, "Essay on American Scenery" (1835)                                                                 ; Chapter 2: Danske Dandridge, "In the Company of Trees" (1892)

Chapter 3: Charles Sprague Sargent and William Augustus Stiles, "The Love of Nature" (1892)                                                                                                  Chapter 4: Ossian Cole Simonds, "Appreciation of Natural Beauty" (1898)                                                                              ; Chapter 5: Horace William Shaler Cleveland, "Influence of Parks on the Character of Children" (1898)

Chapter 6: Liberty Hyde Bailey, The Outlook to Nature (1911)                                                                   Chapter 7: Selden Lincoln Whitcomb, "The Value of Natural Areas to Literature and Art" (1926)                                                                                                    ; Chapter 8: Stanley White, "The Value of Natural Preserves to the Landscape Architect" (1926)

Chapter 9: William Willard Ashe, "The Value to Silviculture of Reserved



Areas of Natural Forest Types" (1926)                                                                                                                    Chapter 10: Arthur Sperry Pearse, "The Value of Aquatic Preserves to Fisheries" (1926)

Chapter 11: Stephen Sargent Visher, "The Importance to Geography of the Preservation of Natural Areas" (1926)                                                                                                                    Chapter 12: Victor E. Shelford, "The Importance of Natural Areas to Biology and Agriculture" (1926)                                                                                                          ; Part II: Our American Flora

Chapter 1: Andrew Jackson Downing, "The Neglected American Plants" (1851)