Contents Introduction 3 Prologue: The Yellowwood and the Forgotten Creek 10 One NATURE'S INFINITE BOOK: THE LANGUAGE OF LANDSCAPE 1 Dwelling and Tongue: The Language of Landscape 15 Landscape Is LanguageLandscape Is Meaningful and Expressive 0 Landscape Has Consequences 2 Survival and Imagination: Reading and Telling the Meanings of Landscape 27 Landscape Contested, Celebrated, Reclaimed: Slesvig and the Danish Heath 0 Meanings: Inherent, Invented, Ambiguous e Landscape Dialogues: Reading and Responding 3 Artful Telling, Deep Reading: The Literature of Landscape 47 The Poetry of Worship, Conquest, and Defense: Mont-Saint-Michel & Landscape Stories: Folklore, Myth, Tragedy, Comedy, Epic, Poetry 0 Landscape Genres: Of Worship, Memory, Play, Movement and Meeting, Production and Waste, Home and Community Artful Telling, Deep Reading: A Literature of Lived Life Two WITHOUT FORM AND VOID TO HEAVEN AND EARTH: LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION 4 Is a Path Like a Noun, Flowing Like a Verb? Elements of Landscape and Language 85 Process: Actions and Patterns of Events * Matter: Sensual and Dynamic