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[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

 Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape Paperback – August 20, 2013
by Barry Lopez
<https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&field-author=Barry+Lopez&text=Barry+Lopez&sort=relevancerank&search-alias=books>
(Editor),
Debra Gwartney
<https://www.amazon.com/Debra-Gwartney/e/B001JSE792/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_2>
(Editor)

https://www.amazon.com/Home-Ground-Guide-American-Landscape/dp/1595341757

Hailed by book reviewers as a "masterpiece," "gorgeous and fascinating,"
and "sheer pleasure," Home Ground: A Guide to the American Landscape was
published in fall 2006 in hardcover. It was met with outstanding reviews
and strong sales, going into three printings. A language-lover's dream,
this visionary reference revitalized a descriptive language for the
American landscape by combining geography, literature, and folklore in one
volume. This is a totally redesigned, near-pocket-sized field guide edition
of the best-selling hardcover.

Home Ground brings together 45 poets and writers to create more than 850
original definitions for words that describe our lands and waters. The
writers draw from careful research and their own distinctive stylistic,
personal, and regional diversity to portray in bright, precise prose the
striking complexity of the landscapes we inhabit. Includes an introductory
essay by Barry Lopez. At the heart of the book is a community of writers in
service to their country, emphasizing a language suggesting the vastness
and mystery that lie beyond our everyday words.

Contributors include: Jeffery Renard Allen, Kim Barnes, Conger Beasley,
Jr., Franklin Burroughs, Lan Samantha Chang, Michael Collier, Elizabeth
Cox, John Daniel, Jan DeBlieu, William deBuys, Gretel Ehrlich, Charles
Frazier, Pamela Frierson, Patricia Hampl, Robert Hass, Emily Hiestand,
Linda Hogan, Stephen Graham Jones, John Keeble, Barbara Kingsolver, William
Kittredge, Jon Krakauer, Gretchen Legler, Arturo Longoria, Bill McKibben,
Ellen Meloy, Robert Morgan, Susan Brind Morrow, Antonya Nelson, Robert
Michael Pyle, Pattiann Rogers, Scott Russell Sanders, Eva Saulitis, Donna
Seaman, Carolyn Servid, Kim Stafford, Mary Swander, Arthur Sze, Mike
Tidwell, Luis Alberto Urrea, Luis Verano, D. J. Waldie, Joy Williams, Terry
Tempest Williams, and Larry Woiwode.
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On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Scott Pittman <scott@permaculture.org>
wrote:

> These are the questions that we must answer
> in permaculture or we are pissing up a rope!  <.....> which leads me to
question is the
> word salvageable or should we move on with a better and more true model of
> change?  I think all the elements exist in permaculture as a design
process
> but they have been so compromised that we must invent a new language and
> perhaps a new title for what we are about.

> I often speak of this lack of language in describing pattern.  We have
> lost so much descriptive language that we cannot accurately describe our
> environment anymore.  Branching patterns of moving water is hard pressed
to
> name each branch.  What is the real difference between a rill, brook,
> stream, rivulet, river, estuary, and... and.. we have a supposed six
orders
> and can only begin to name each of them in a clear and distinctive way.
> The same with tree branching.  If we are unable to succinctly describe our
> environment can we really see it??  I don’t think so.
And in Biodynamics there are "flowforms" that guide and energize water
flowing downhill through the unique. offset, masonry channels.
I just bought a copy of this book.