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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog alternative "Forest and garden".
- catalog contributor b12751740.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-292) and index.".
- catalog extent "xix, 302 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0813921597 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "712/.0973 21".
- catalog subject "Landscape architecture United States History.".
- catalog subject "Landscape change United States History.".
- catalog subject "Landscape changes United States History.".
- catalog subject "Nature Effect of human beings on United States History.".
- catalog subject "SB470.53 .S56 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Forest & garden : traces of wildness in a modernizing land, 1897-1949 / Melanie L. Simo.".
- catalog title "Forest and garden".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".