Landscapes


Underland: A Deep Time Journey
The Solace of Open Spaces
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
Picturing America: Thomas Cole and the Birth of American Art
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Connemara: Listening to the Wind
Landmarks
Nature Cure
Until Next Time
Arctic Dreams
Landscape and Memory
The Necessity of Empty Places
Watercolour Landscapes: The Complete Guide to Painting Landscapes
José Ortega y Gasset
To meditate is to sail a course, to navigate, among problems many of which we are in the process of clearing up. After each one looms another, whose shores are even more attractive, more suggestive. Certainly, it requires strength and perseverance to get to windward of problems, but there is no greater delight than to reach new shores, and even to sail, as Camoëns says, “through seas that keel has never cut before.” If you will now open a bank-account of attention for me, I foretell sun-smitten ...more
José Ortega y Gasset, Man and People (Norton Library

Susan Wiggs
The undulating terrain was cloaked in lush abundance, the vineyards like garlands of deep green and yellow, orchards and farms sprouting here and there, hillocks of dry golden grass crowned by beautiful sun-gilt houses, barns and silos. And overhead was the bluest sky she'd ever seen, as bright and hard polished as marble. There was something about the landscape that caught at her emotions. It was both lush and intimidating, its beauty so abundant. Far from the bustle of the city, she was a comp ...more
Susan Wiggs, The Apple Orchard

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