Elisabeth C. Miller Library

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Images of the Washington Park Arboretum

Photographer Stephanie Jeter's images on exhibit from November 7 to January 3. Join us for the artist's reception on Friday, November 7 from 5:30pm to 7. Postcard.
posted 10-31-2008

New and Recommended!

Though I will probably never survey my surroundings from the top of a tall beech tree, or climb a frozen waterfall in the dark, I thoroughly enjoyed discovering unspoiled natural areas of Britain through Robert Macfarlane’s book The Wild Places (Granta Books , 2007).  In richly descriptive prose, he leads the reader to these increasingly rare spots on the map, from saltmarshes and moors to hedgerows and holloways (tunnels of vegetation).  Under the tutelage of his friend Roger Deakin (author of Wildwood, who died in 2007), Macfarlane’s conception of wildness evolves over the course of his travels to include the humbler, smaller wild places that are within reach of even the most city-bound nature lovers:

"I thought about how the vision of wildness with which I had begun my journeys – inhuman, northern, remote – was starting to crumble from contact with the ground itself... The human and the wild cannot be partitioned. Everywhere that day I had encountered blendings and mixings."

By Rebecca Alexander, Plant Answer Line
posted 11-13-2008

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posted 11-04-2006

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background tree photo by Stephanie Jeter