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"In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison tells stories of people and places that have nourished his career as a teacher and a designer of nature-inspired landscapes. For more than six decades, Morrison has drawn inspiration from the varied landscapes of his life. For Morrison, however, there is...
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Library of American Landscape History,
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| Publisher Address: | Amherst, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"In Beauty of the Wild, Darrel Morrison tells stories of people and places that have nourished his career as a teacher and a designer of nature-inspired landscapes. For more than six decades, Morrison has drawn inspiration from the varied landscapes of his life. For Morrison, however, there is also a deeper motivation for designing these landscapes. Strongly influenced by Aldo Leopold's observation that people start to appreciate nature initially through its pretty elements, he explains: 'From admiring individual plants within a big composition, you can move to starting to see patterns, and then this leads to starting to think about processes that have led to the patterns. It is a progression. You start to think more about why things are where they are, and how you can perpetuate that, and even deeper, you really start to think about protecting, preserving, and restoring these qualities in the landscapes we are responsible for.'"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781952620287 1952620287 |
| Index Number: | SB470 |
| CLC: |
TU986.671.2-64 K837.126.16 |
| Call Number: | K837.126.16/M878 |
| Contents: | Prologue: wheatfield under thunderclouds -- Iowa Farm -- Out of the nest -- Early forays in design -- Merging ecology with design -- Southern odyssey -- Expanding horizons -- New York City decade -- Restoring the beauty of the wild -- Under a Montana sky -- Epilogue: back to the prairie. |