02793nam 2200649Ia 450 991077744290332120230607221753.01-58729-406-0(CKB)1000000000447497(EBL)837050(OCoLC)56352151(SSID)ssj0000188754(PQKBManifestationID)11196647(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188754(PQKBWorkID)10153073(PQKB)10404457(SSID)ssj0000485471(PQKBManifestationID)11311152(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485471(PQKBWorkID)10608775(PQKB)10903188(MiAaPQ)EBC837050(MdBmJHUP)muse2963(Au-PeEL)EBL837050(CaPaEBR)ebr10354436(EXLCZ)99100000000044749720010511d2001 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLandscape with figures[electronic resource] nature & culture in New England /Kent C. Ryden; foreword by Wayne FranklinIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20011 online resource (343 p.)The American land and life seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-788-3 0-87745-787-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-306) and index.Foreword; Preface; 1.Big Trees and Back Yards; 2.Landscape with Figures; 3.Sea Green; 4. ""A Labyrinth of Errors""; 5. A Walk in the Woods; 6. Redesigning the River; 7. Natural Landscapes, Cultural Regions; Notes; IndexTraveling across the invisible landscape in which we imaginatively dwell, Kent Ryden--himself a most careful listener and reader--asks the following questions. What categories of meaning do we read into our surroundings? What forms of expression serve as the most reliable maps to understanding those meanings? Our sense of any place, he argues, consists of a deeply ingrained experiential knowledge of its physical makeup; an awareness of its communal and personal history; a sense of our identity as being inextricably bound up with its events and ways of life; and an emotional reaction, positive American land and life series.Human ecologyNew EnglandLandscape assessmentNew EnglandHuman ecologyLandscape assessment304.2/0974304.20974Ryden Kent C.1959-477075MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777442903321Landscape with figures3759036UNINA