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| 514ad38 | "By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin--a landscape of former prairies now long vanished--as somehow more "natural" than the streets, buildings, and parks of Chicago? All represented drastic human alterations of earlier landscapes." | rural-history urban-history | William Cronon | |
| bf000aa | Resources, waterways, and climatic zones loom so large in their writings that one can almost forget that people have something to do with the building of cities. | environmental-history historiography urban-history | William Cronon |