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Thinking through landscape locates the start of this change in human labour and urban elites being cut off from nature nature became an imaginary construct masking our real interaction with the natural world the book argues that this gave rise to a theoretical and literary appreciation of landscape at the expense of an effective practical . Thinking through landscape locates the start of this change in human labour and urban elites being cut off from nature nature became an imaginary construct masking our real interaction with the natural world the book argues that this gave rise to a theoretical and literary appreciation of landscape at the expense of an effective practical . Thinking through landscape locates the start of this change in human labour and urban elites being cut off from nature nature became an imaginary construct masking our real interaction with the natural world the book argues that this gave rise to a theoretical and literary appreciation of landscape at the expense of an effective practical . It provides a powerful distinction between two attitudes to landscape the tacit knowledge of earlier peoples engaged in creating the landscape through their work landscaping thought and the explicit theoretical and aesthetic attitudes of modern city dwellers who love nature while belonging to a civilization that destroys the landscape landscape thinking. Thinking through landscape doi link for thinking through landscape thinking through landscape book thinking through landscape doi link for thinking through landscape thinking through landscape book by augustin berque anne marie feenberg dibon edition 1st edition first published 2015