Nature • Environment
Permanent Publications
February 2010
THE LIVING LANDSCAPE How to Read and Understand It Patrick Whitefield Foreword by Ben Law
Being able to “read” the landscape while on a walk is like suddenly seeing the world in color after a lifetime of black and white. Patrick Whitefield shares a lifetime’s knowledge of the myriad interactions that go to make up the fascinating and varied landscapes we see all around us. He will inspire you to reconnect with the land as a living entity, not a collection of different scenery, and develop an active relationship with nature and the countryside. The Living Landscape opens with a chapter on how to go about reading the landscape. The following chapters then go on to look in detail into landscape formation, from rocks, through soil, to vegetation, and the intricate web of interactions among plants, animals, climate, and people that makes the landscape around us. Each chapter is interspersed with diagrams, sketches, and notes that Patrick has taken over two decades of living and working in the countryside.
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Pub Date February 2010
$37.95 US, $46.95 CAN • Paper ISBN 9781856230438 6 x 9 • 360 pages • 50 color photos and 140 B&W line drawings • Nature/Environment
This book invites you to engage actively with nature and experience it firsthand. Understanding how landscapes evolve is a useful skill for landscape designers, gardeners, and farmers large and small, but it is also a life-enhancing skill all of us can enjoy. Whitefield offers us the enduring pleasure that costs nothing and yet offers everything.
“The knowledge of reading the landscape brings us within it . . . In his clear and accessible style, Patrick offers the reader not just the breadth of his knowledge but the first steps on a journey to become part of our landscape again.” —From the Foreword by Ben Law
•••Also by Patrick Whitefield••• PERMACULTURE IN A NUTSHELL Patrick Whitefield
$9.00 US • PB • 9781856230032 5 1/8 x 7 3/4 • 84 pages B&W illustrations
Patrick Whitefield is one of Europe’s foremost authors, teachers, and practitioners of temperate-climate permaculture. Patrick’s previous books include: Permaculture in a Nutshell, The Earth Care Manual, How To Make a Forest Garden, and Tipi Living.
HOW TO MAKE A FOREST GARDEN Patrick Whitefield
$30.00 US • PB • 9781856230087 8 x 11 • 184 pages B&W photographs • charts • graphs
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