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Posted by Frank September 30, 2007

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25 years of reading on nature, art & landscape, these books gave me direction.
Machine in the Garden by Leo Marx
Landscape and Power by W.J.T. Mitchell
Man in the Landscape by Paul Shepard
Coming Home To The Pleistocene by Paul Shepard
Noah's Garden By Sara Stein
Changes in the Land by William Cronon
Weeds and What They Tell by Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer
Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeil
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape by J.B. Jackson
Landscape in Sight by J.B. Jackson
A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time by J.B. Jackson
The Necessity for Ruins by J.B. Jackson
Life In The Soil by James Nardi
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
The Lay of the Land by Annette Kolodny
Epic of Gilgamesh
Topophilia by Yi Fu Tuan
Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques by Ralph Mayer

A Note To Readers:

Since 2007, this blog has provided valuable information and entertainment without ads. As of January 1, 2025, some posts contain Amazon links to products that I have used and found helpful for projects. Since I have not sold one item, Amazon booted me. Good riddance, but I don't care to remove all the links, so they remain.

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