From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place

By Deborah Tall

Book Overview

Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Deborah Tall's From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places--and the loss to us if there are no such connections. A typica

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394577388
• ISBN13: 9780394577388
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 241 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.3" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Know Where We Stand, Then We Know Where We Are

My understanding and practice of landscaping is limited to the home and garden variety. Even at this level of home maintenance my skills and interests are limited. And I should be vacationing at a national park, say, the Grand Canyon or Yosemite, I would be as Moses standing on Pisgah taking in the general effect of the scenery from a distance. It comes as an entirely new revelation then, for one to be connected to...