Wisdom of Place: A guide to Recovering the Sacred Origins of Landscape

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This book aims to help readers rediscover the sacredness of the everyday landscapes around them in order to shed light on the ecological imperatives of our time.

Drawn from the union of art, nature, and metaphysics, it presents some of the myths and legends of antiquity as they might be recognized by our modern society of earth-shapers. Through word and image the authors reference the ecological and environmental concepts found at the core of traditional environmental knowledge and provide a new context for environmental engagement that merges the spiritual and phenomenological with the scientific and empirical. Wisdom of place can be used by anyonefrom creatives to spiritual seekers, landscape architects to codersto call forth the voice of the genius locithe spirit of placeand reveal the creative forces and hidden currents of nature.

Author Bio

Elizabeth Boults is a landscape architect and lecturer in human ecology at the University of California, Davis. Her areas of interest are graphic communication, site design, and landscape history, theory and criticism.

Chip Sullivan is an artist and professor of landscape architecture and environmental design at the University of California, Berkeley. Chip is recognised for his expertise in landscape representation and illustration as well as innovative, energy-conserving design.