Just re-reading "About this Life" by Barry Lopez, one of my favourite authors since reading "Arctic Dreams" in 1987.
Passage in Chapter 8: "The American Geographies"
"Geography is... knowledge that calls up something in the land we recognise and respond to. It gives us a sense of place and a sense of community. Both are indispensable to a state of well being, an individual's and a country's..."
Passage in Chapter 8: "The American Geographies"
"Geography is... knowledge that calls up something in the land we recognise and respond to. It gives us a sense of place and a sense of community. Both are indispensable to a state of well being, an individual's and a country's..."
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