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Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In 'Stories in Stone', he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas(...)
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Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In 'Stories in Stone', he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas(...)
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Stories in stone: travels through urban geology
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Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In 'Stories in Stone', he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar.
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Most people do not think to observe geology from the sidewalks of a major city, but all David B. Williams has to do is look at building stone in any urban center to find a range of rocks equal to any assembled by plate tectonics. In 'Stories in Stone', he takes you on explorations to find 3.5-billion-year-old rock that looks like swirled pink-and-black taffy, a gas station made of petrified wood, and a Florida fort that has withstood three hundred years of attacks and hurricanes, despite being made of a stone that has the consistency of a granola bar.
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Upstream: selected essays
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''Upstream,'' a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood ''friend'' Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple,(...)
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''Upstream,'' a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood ''friend'' Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple,(...)
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''Upstream,'' a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood ''friend'' Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, ''a place to enter, and in which to feel,'' and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, ''I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.''
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''Upstream,'' a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood ''friend'' Walt Whitman, through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple, ''a place to enter, and in which to feel,'' and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing, Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. As she writes, ''I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.''
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'Heaven's Breath', the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biology, physics, sociology, physiology, psychology, history, and philosophy. Watson shows how winds shape the world and maintains its life world, functioning as the circulatory and nervous systems of the planet, sharing our energy and(...)
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'Heaven's Breath', the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biology, physics, sociology, physiology, psychology, history, and philosophy. Watson shows how winds shape the world and maintains its life world, functioning as the circulatory and nervous systems of the planet, sharing our energy and(...)
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Heaven's breath: a natural history of the wind
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'Heaven's Breath', the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biology, physics, sociology, physiology, psychology, history, and philosophy. Watson shows how winds shape the world and maintains its life world, functioning as the circulatory and nervous systems of the planet, sharing our energy and information, distributing warmth, bringing rain, enriching or stripping away soil, air-conditioning the globe.
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'Heaven's Breath', the first history of the wind, looks at this ubiquitous and invisible entity from the point of view of geography, biology, physics, sociology, physiology, psychology, history, and philosophy. Watson shows how winds shape the world and maintains its life world, functioning as the circulatory and nervous systems of the planet, sharing our energy and information, distributing warmth, bringing rain, enriching or stripping away soil, air-conditioning the globe.
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Ecartée au XXe siècle au profit de la photographie, la pratique du dessin s'inscrit dans une longue tradition des sciences naturelles et de la botanique. Parce qu'il interprète autant qu'il décrit, le dessin amplifie la vision et permet de saisir dans son ensemble la réalité d'un objet vivant et complexe. L'arbre est de ceux-là, et des trésors d'informations, qui(...)
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Ecartée au XXe siècle au profit de la photographie, la pratique du dessin s'inscrit dans une longue tradition des sciences naturelles et de la botanique. Parce qu'il interprète autant qu'il décrit, le dessin amplifie la vision et permet de saisir dans son ensemble la réalité d'un objet vivant et complexe. L'arbre est de ceux-là, et des trésors d'informations, qui(...)
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Arbres et arbustes en campagne
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Ecartée au XXe siècle au profit de la photographie, la pratique du dessin s'inscrit dans une longue tradition des sciences naturelles et de la botanique. Parce qu'il interprète autant qu'il décrit, le dessin amplifie la vision et permet de saisir dans son ensemble la réalité d'un objet vivant et complexe. L'arbre est de ceux-là, et des trésors d'informations, qui échappent aux outils d'enregistrement les plus modernes, surgissent opportunément sous le crayon expert de David Dellas. Par la puissance de son réalisme, l'ouvrage procure un sentiment de proximité et d'émerveillement, et, comme l'indique Francis Hallé, "nous voyons enfin les arbres et arbustes de nos régions comme ils sont réellement, représentés avec une précision et une sensibilité telles que leur identification devient aisée et presque immédiate". Au fil d'un sobre et vibrant plaidoyer iconographique pour la biodiversité ordinaire, l'auteur pro- pose une "flore" accessible à tous, permettant de découvrir et de reconnaître les arbres champêtres, compagnons de notre quotidien, dont on a oublié la noblesse, la rusticité et les grandes utilités... Des arbres discrets et ignorés, qui jouent pourtant un rôle transversal et précieux dans le devenir et la durabilité des territoires et de l'agriculture.
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Ecartée au XXe siècle au profit de la photographie, la pratique du dessin s'inscrit dans une longue tradition des sciences naturelles et de la botanique. Parce qu'il interprète autant qu'il décrit, le dessin amplifie la vision et permet de saisir dans son ensemble la réalité d'un objet vivant et complexe. L'arbre est de ceux-là, et des trésors d'informations, qui échappent aux outils d'enregistrement les plus modernes, surgissent opportunément sous le crayon expert de David Dellas. Par la puissance de son réalisme, l'ouvrage procure un sentiment de proximité et d'émerveillement, et, comme l'indique Francis Hallé, "nous voyons enfin les arbres et arbustes de nos régions comme ils sont réellement, représentés avec une précision et une sensibilité telles que leur identification devient aisée et presque immédiate". Au fil d'un sobre et vibrant plaidoyer iconographique pour la biodiversité ordinaire, l'auteur pro- pose une "flore" accessible à tous, permettant de découvrir et de reconnaître les arbres champêtres, compagnons de notre quotidien, dont on a oublié la noblesse, la rusticité et les grandes utilités... Des arbres discrets et ignorés, qui jouent pourtant un rôle transversal et précieux dans le devenir et la durabilité des territoires et de l'agriculture.
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''Reciprocal landscapes: stories of material movements'' traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and(...)
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''Reciprocal landscapes: stories of material movements'' traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and(...)
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Reciprocal landscapes: stories of material movements
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''Reciprocal landscapes: stories of material movements'' traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. This book considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.
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''Reciprocal landscapes: stories of material movements'' traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents, photographs, and field trips, the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together, exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange, labor, and material flows. This book considers the social, political, and ecological entanglements of material practice, challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them, and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people, other species, and landscapes elsewhere.
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Theory of gardens
Theory of gardens
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Jean-Marie Morel (1728–1810), a leading French landscape designer and theorist, is now mainly remembered as the author of one of the fundamental eighteenth-century texts in the history of landscape architecture, the 'Théorie des jardins' (1776; second edition, 1802). With his background as an engineer, Morel was instrumental in shaping the functions of landscape(...)
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Jean-Marie Morel (1728–1810), a leading French landscape designer and theorist, is now mainly remembered as the author of one of the fundamental eighteenth-century texts in the history of landscape architecture, the 'Théorie des jardins' (1776; second edition, 1802). With his background as an engineer, Morel was instrumental in shaping the functions of landscape(...)
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Theory of gardens
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Jean-Marie Morel (1728–1810), a leading French landscape designer and theorist, is now mainly remembered as the author of one of the fundamental eighteenth-century texts in the history of landscape architecture, the 'Théorie des jardins' (1776; second edition, 1802). With his background as an engineer, Morel was instrumental in shaping the functions of landscape architecture, opening up a new professional domain by coining the term architecte-paysagiste, the precursor to the modern designation landscape architect. This translation marks the first time the 1776 edition of the 'Théorie des jardins' is available in English.
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Jean-Marie Morel (1728–1810), a leading French landscape designer and theorist, is now mainly remembered as the author of one of the fundamental eighteenth-century texts in the history of landscape architecture, the 'Théorie des jardins' (1776; second edition, 1802). With his background as an engineer, Morel was instrumental in shaping the functions of landscape architecture, opening up a new professional domain by coining the term architecte-paysagiste, the precursor to the modern designation landscape architect. This translation marks the first time the 1776 edition of the 'Théorie des jardins' is available in English.
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La démarche paysagère mise au jour dans cet ouvrage apparaît profondément innovante, voire révolutionnaire : elle est contre les spécialistes, les disciplinés, les simplificateurs, les séparateurs, les réducteurs, les rationalistes, qui défont la planète. Elle porte l’ambition folle de redessiner le monde.
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La démarche paysagère mise au jour dans cet ouvrage apparaît profondément innovante, voire révolutionnaire : elle est contre les spécialistes, les disciplinés, les simplificateurs, les séparateurs, les réducteurs, les rationalistes, qui défont la planète. Elle porte l’ambition folle de redessiner le monde.
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L'archipel des métamorphoses : la transition par le paysage
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La démarche paysagère mise au jour dans cet ouvrage apparaît profondément innovante, voire révolutionnaire : elle est contre les spécialistes, les disciplinés, les simplificateurs, les séparateurs, les réducteurs, les rationalistes, qui défont la planète. Elle porte l’ambition folle de redessiner le monde.
L'archipel des métamorphoses : la transition par le paysage
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La démarche paysagère mise au jour dans cet ouvrage apparaît profondément innovante, voire révolutionnaire : elle est contre les spécialistes, les disciplinés, les simplificateurs, les séparateurs, les réducteurs, les rationalistes, qui défont la planète. Elle porte l’ambition folle de redessiner le monde.
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Les îles sont des lieux de vie, une vie singulière, et on s'interroge aujourd'hui sur les possibilités de la préserver, de l'entretenir, mais aussi de la projeter vers le futur. Comment agir dans les îles pour y maintenir et y développer des cadres de vie satisfaisants pour les populations qui y résident ? Comment y faire coexister des usages, des intérêts, des volontés(...)
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Les îles sont des lieux de vie, une vie singulière, et on s'interroge aujourd'hui sur les possibilités de la préserver, de l'entretenir, mais aussi de la projeter vers le futur. Comment agir dans les îles pour y maintenir et y développer des cadres de vie satisfaisants pour les populations qui y résident ? Comment y faire coexister des usages, des intérêts, des volontés(...)
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Les carnets du paysage, numéro 35 : îles en projet
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Les îles sont des lieux de vie, une vie singulière, et on s'interroge aujourd'hui sur les possibilités de la préserver, de l'entretenir, mais aussi de la projeter vers le futur. Comment agir dans les îles pour y maintenir et y développer des cadres de vie satisfaisants pour les populations qui y résident ? Comment y faire coexister des usages, des intérêts, des volontés hétérogènes portées par des populations aux activités et aux aspirations différentes ? Comment, surtout, répondre aux défis environnementaux, qui touchent aussi bien aux questions de biodiversité végétale et animale qu'à celles de la qualité des conditions spatiales, paysagères et architecturales de la vie sociale ? Ce numéro des Carnets du paysage envisage aussi les îles comme des mondes imaginaires et comme le cadre d'expériences particulières où s'expriment les notions de singularité et d'étrangeté, vécues comme éloignement et isolement.
Les carnets du paysage, numéro 35 : îles en projet
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Les îles sont des lieux de vie, une vie singulière, et on s'interroge aujourd'hui sur les possibilités de la préserver, de l'entretenir, mais aussi de la projeter vers le futur. Comment agir dans les îles pour y maintenir et y développer des cadres de vie satisfaisants pour les populations qui y résident ? Comment y faire coexister des usages, des intérêts, des volontés hétérogènes portées par des populations aux activités et aux aspirations différentes ? Comment, surtout, répondre aux défis environnementaux, qui touchent aussi bien aux questions de biodiversité végétale et animale qu'à celles de la qualité des conditions spatiales, paysagères et architecturales de la vie sociale ? Ce numéro des Carnets du paysage envisage aussi les îles comme des mondes imaginaires et comme le cadre d'expériences particulières où s'expriment les notions de singularité et d'étrangeté, vécues comme éloignement et isolement.
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The pebbles on the beach
The pebbles on the beach
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This is a spirited guide to the simple pleasure of pebble spotting. Clarence Ellis is a charming, knowledgeable and witty guide to everything you didn't know there was to know about pebbles. He ruminates on what a pebble actually is, before showing us how they are formed, advising on the best pebble-spotting grounds in the UK, helping to identify individual stones, and(...)
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This is a spirited guide to the simple pleasure of pebble spotting. Clarence Ellis is a charming, knowledgeable and witty guide to everything you didn't know there was to know about pebbles. He ruminates on what a pebble actually is, before showing us how they are formed, advising on the best pebble-spotting grounds in the UK, helping to identify individual stones, and(...)
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The pebbles on the beach
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This is a spirited guide to the simple pleasure of pebble spotting. Clarence Ellis is a charming, knowledgeable and witty guide to everything you didn't know there was to know about pebbles. He ruminates on what a pebble actually is, before showing us how they are formed, advising on the best pebble-spotting grounds in the UK, helping to identify individual stones, and giving tips onthe necessary kit. You'll know your chert from your schist, your onyx from your agate and will be on your guard for artificial intruders before you know it. Understanding the humble pebble makes a trip to the beach, lake-side or river bank simply that little bit more fascinating. A handy illustrated guide to identifying pebbles is included on the reverse of the book jacket.
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This is a spirited guide to the simple pleasure of pebble spotting. Clarence Ellis is a charming, knowledgeable and witty guide to everything you didn't know there was to know about pebbles. He ruminates on what a pebble actually is, before showing us how they are formed, advising on the best pebble-spotting grounds in the UK, helping to identify individual stones, and giving tips onthe necessary kit. You'll know your chert from your schist, your onyx from your agate and will be on your guard for artificial intruders before you know it. Understanding the humble pebble makes a trip to the beach, lake-side or river bank simply that little bit more fascinating. A handy illustrated guide to identifying pebbles is included on the reverse of the book jacket.
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In 1845, the American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau went to live in the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. For over two years he resided there largely in solitary, in a small cabin built by his own hands. Walden is his personal account of this time, in which he documents both his passion for the landscape and wildlife of Walden Pond,(...)
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In 1845, the American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau went to live in the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. For over two years he resided there largely in solitary, in a small cabin built by his own hands. Walden is his personal account of this time, in which he documents both his passion for the landscape and wildlife of Walden Pond,(...)
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In 1845, the American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau went to live in the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. For over two years he resided there largely in solitary, in a small cabin built by his own hands. Walden is his personal account of this time, in which he documents both his passion for the landscape and wildlife of Walden Pond, and his philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the materialism which continues to define not only America, but much of the modern world.
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In 1845, the American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau went to live in the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. For over two years he resided there largely in solitary, in a small cabin built by his own hands. Walden is his personal account of this time, in which he documents both his passion for the landscape and wildlife of Walden Pond, and his philosophical and political motivations for rejecting the materialism which continues to define not only America, but much of the modern world.
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