The Spirn, Anne Whiston creator text New Haven, Conn Yale University Press 1998 monographic eng 326 p. ill. 24 cm. This book combines poetry and pragmatism to teach the language of landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn argues that the language of landscape exists with its own grammar and metaphors, and that we imperil ourselves by failing to learn to read and speak this language. To understand the meanings of landscape, our habitat, is to see the world differently and to enable ourselves to avoid profound environmental and aesthetic mistakes specialized Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. Landscape architecture Human ecology Landscape assessment Landscapes SB472.S685 1998. 9780300082944 BEA 150526 20170601154324.0 331523