Forest & garden : traces of wildness in a modernizing land, 1897-1949
"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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2003
University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, 2003
History
xix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780813921594, 0813921597
50124416
Desert: land of little rain, great beauty
Prairie and plains: myth, symbol, cultural independence
Forested mountains: Sierra Nevada, Rockies, Appalachian Trail
San Francisco Bay Area: "Nature controlled by art"
Around New York and Boston: traces of wildness, lost and found
Park makers and forest managers: crossing professional lines in the early years
Layers of human habitation and wildness
Ecology along the roadside, by the water, and in the garden
Spirit of the landscape, humanized and wild
A land ethic for a plundered planet