To Breathe with Birds : : A Book of Landscapes / / Václav Cílek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2015
• VerfasserIn: Cílek, Václav,
• TeilnehmendeR: Livingston, Morna.; Mellander, Evan W.; Olin, Laurie.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 24 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword, by Laurie Olin --; Preface: Gathering Strength and Drinking Dawn in the Landscape of Home --; 1. Geodiversity and Changes in the Bohemian Landscape --; 2. A Tree as a Family Member --; 3. A Revolution of Surface: Successful as Asphalt --; 4. Journey to Uničov or About the Gap Between the Birds --; 5. Walking Through a Landscape --; 6. Tranquility at the Fundaments of the World --; 7. The Masked Moose and Other Stories --; 8. Dreaming About Vigilance: A Nut from Nine Undersea Hazel Trees --; 9. Journey to India: In Benares One Comes to Understand That One Was Born in Libeň --; 10. The Breath of Bones and Places --; 11. The Standard Central Bohemian Vision --; 12. Places from the Other Side --; 13. On Landscape Memory and the Stone of St. Ivan at Bytíz near Příbram --; 14. The Man Who Used to Write in a Forsaken Landscape --; 15. The Six-Cornered Snowflake --; 16. Bees of the Invisible --; Acknowledgments
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780812291063; 9783110438642; 9783110439687; 9783110665932
• DOI: 10.9783/9780812291063
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Václav Cílek.

Just as there is love at first sight between people, Václav Cílek writes, there can be love at first sight between a person and a place. A landscape is more than a location, it is one party in a relationship-even when the spirit of a certain setting is not perceptible to those who visit. But whether we travel to experience rapture or excitement, to discover truth and beauty, or to be dazzled, we search for the essence of faraway landscapes to gain perspective on our own place within the world. To Breathe with Birds delves into the imaginative and emotional bonds we form with landscapes and how human existence-a recent development, geologically speaking-shapes and is shaped by a sense of place.In subtle and lyrical prose, renowned geologist and author Václav Cílek explores topics from the history of asphalt to the spirits we imagine in trees, from geodiversity to the mathematics of snowflakes. Weaving earth science and environmentalism together with memoir and myth, his chapters visit resonant locations from India to Massachusetts, though most are deeply rooted in the river-laced, war-scarred landscape of Cílek's Czech homeland. These reflections are accompanied by Morna Livingston's evocative photographs, which capture the beauty and strangeness of natural and human-made forms. The first book-length appearance of Cílek's work in English translation, To Breathe with Birds offers insightful perspectives on the symbolism of landscapes as we struggle to conserve and protect the depleted earth.