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Book cover for City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago's Environmental History (Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ)
Indeed, much of Chicago’s rise as the central “city in the garden” was owed to the ways in which the long history of human occupation in the region had shaped and conditioned the soil, cropped the landscape with its distinctive mosaic-like ...more
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William Blake
“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
William Blake

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
Mary Oliver

Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
Frank Zappa

John Muir
“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
John Muir

Zelda Fitzgerald
“I don't want to live, I want to love first and live incidentally.”
Zelda Fitzgerald

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Whether it be an in-depth look at our natural world through essays written by past and present authors such as H.D. Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Cars ...more
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