Pruned: Landscape Hints Annotated

Discovered recently are these digitized before-and-after landscape illustrations of Humphry Repton, the prolific and influential English landscape designer of the 18th and 19th centuries, taken from what must be the only complete online facsimile of his important texts.

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A quick word about these two images, for they are hilarious. The landscape […]

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Ecologist Maps Manhattan of 400 Years Ago : TreeHugger Annotated
 

 
hear Dr. Eric Sanderson speak about the Mannahatta Project-
 
he told us that Landscape of New York City 400 years ago would have rivaled that of Yellowstone or Yosemite today.
Manhattan, or what the Lenape Indians called Mannahatta, was more biologically diverse than either of those two […]

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