Landscape
The primary source for landscape is the landscape around you. The ways in which humans have shaped the land has left its mark, and offer clues to past use and past values. Several texts exist that can guide you in reading and interpreting the shaped landscape of your local town.
“Reading the Forested Landscape” by Tom Wessels, “New England Forests Through Time” by David R. Foster and John F. O’Keefe, “Common Landscape of America” by John R. Stilgoe, “Reading the Landscape” by May Theilgaard Watts, “Sermons in Stone: the Stone Walls of New England & New York by s. Allport and D. Howell, “Thoreau’s Country: Journey Through a Transformed Landscape” by David R. Foster
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