Man in the landscape
Subtitle: a historic view of the esthetics of nature
By: Paul Shepard ; with a new foreword by Dave Foreman.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Nature (Aesthetics)
Description: "A pioneering exploration of the roots of our attitudes toward nature, Paul Shepard's most seminal work is as challenging and provocative today as it was when it first appeared in 1967. Man in the Landscape was among the first books of a new genre that has elucidated the ideas, beliefs, and images that lie behind our modern destruction and conservation of the natural world.".

"Departing from the traditional study of land use as a history of technology, this book explores the emergence of modern attitudes in literature, art, and architecture - their evolutionary past and their taproot in European and Mediterranean cultures. With humor and wit, Shepard considers the influence of Christianity on ideas about nature, the absence of a nature ethic in modern philosophy, and the obsessive themes of dominance and control as elements of the modern mind."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-290) and index.
Originally published: 2nd ed. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1991, in series: Environmental history series.