| Description |
xix, 302 pages |
| Contents |
Pt. 1. Across the Continent -- 1. Desert: Land of Little Rain, Great Beauty -- 2. Prairie and Plains: Myth, Symbol, Cultural Independence -- 3. Forested Mountains: Sierra Nevada, Rockies, Appalachian Trail -- 4. San Francisco Bay Area: "Nature Controlled by Art" -- 5. Around New York and Boston: Traces of Wildness, Lost and Found -- Pt. 2. Over Time -- 6. Park Makers and Forest Managers: Crossing Professional Lines in the Early Years -- 7. Layers of Human Habitation and Wildness -- 8. Ecology along the Roadside, by the Water, and in the Garden -- 9. Spirit of the Landscape, Humanized and Wild -- 10. A Land Ethic for a Plundered Planet |
| Summary |
"In Forest and Garden, Melanie L. Simo ranges through the underexamined period of landscape history between Olmsted and mid-twentieth-century modernism, when the contours of the wildness debate were formed and the landscape professions came of age. Simo's book spans half a century, from the year that Charles Sprague Sargent's influential Garden and Forest magazine first ceased publication in 1897 to the appearance in 1949 of two unusual books about land and landscape - Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac and Jens Jensen's The Clearing - that marked the beginning of a new ecological awareness."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Landscape architecture -- United States -- History.
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Landscape changes -- United States -- History.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- United States -- History.
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| LC no. |
2002010189 |
| ISBN |
0813921597 cloth alkaline paper |
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