To Breathe with Birds : : A Book of Landscapes / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 24 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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