The Language of Landscape

by Anne Whiston Spirn and Professor Anne Whiston Spirn

Book Overview

This eloquent and powerful book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn, author of the award-winning The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human Design, argues that the language of landscape exists with its own syntax, grammar, and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300082940
• ISBN13: 9780300082944
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"