Anderson, Edgar, 1897-1969, author.
Landscape papers / Edgar Anderson ; edited, with an introduction, by Bob Callahan.
Berkeley : Turtle Island Foundation, 1976.
©1976
93 pages ; 24 cm
"Shortly after 'Plants, Man and Life' appeared, it was reviewed in the journal 'Landscape'. This led me to J. B. Jackson, the able editor of that remarkable publication. With piquant combination of sharp criticism and flattering appreciation, he charmed out of me a series of short essays. One of these essays takes up in more detail the 'dumpheap theory' of the origin of cultivated plants. Several touch in one way or another on the acceptance of cities as places to live right in the middle of, an attitude that is part of Mexico's Spanish heritage. Three of the essays describe how I learned enough from my Mexican neighbors to have lived serenely years later in a big, moderately priced St. Louis apartment hotel for six months, as a naturalist happy in learning from our apartment windows: new things about bird life in the big city, the serpentine course (unparalleled in its loopings) of the Missouri Pacific railroad as it starts southward, the progress of small thunderheads across the city on a day of little thunder showers, the dynamics of winter sunsets when the sun is so low in the sky that the observer needs to be well over a hundred feet above the ground level to learn very much, and the heights and extents of autumnal morning fogs. I was again spurred on to study and to teach the natural history of cities along with that of seashores and spring woodlands. Some of those who liked this book have found deeper satisfactions in these 'Landscape papers'"--Page 4 of cover.
0913666114
9780913666111
Landscapes.
Natural history.
Natural history literature United States.
Natural History
Paysages.
Sciences naturelles.
Sciences naturelles Documentation États-Unis.
landscapes (environments)
natural sciences.
Natural history literature.
Botany, Economic
United States.
Callahan, Bob, editor, writer of introduction.
Localisation: Bibliothèque main 111002
Cote: 0003943
Statut: Disponible
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