Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic

[Dave Monroe]

Ahem ...

--- Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
> Yea, but this dude is from, like, Madison! I mean,
> like, you ever been to Madison, dude? I mean State
> Street, the U, the capitol... the strip joints to
> the left of the capitol (at least back in '69,
> before we blew up the math building), and the lakes.
> Like, how could this dude even think about the power
> of landscape, he's from Madison, man.

"Kenneth Olwig is professor of geography at the
University of Trondheim in Norway and the author of
Nature's Ideological Landscape."

http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/3489.htm

Madison is like Berkeley, 'cept with way more hippies,
far fewer trees, and rather less polite traffic (in
Berkeley, they stop if they see you waiting to cross
at the curb[!]).  And, hey, I'M from Madison, though
the family fled after the aforementioned incident ...

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