“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.” — William Cronon Copy Share Image
“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?… — William Cronon Copy Share Image
