Poetics of place

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  • Published 20031202
  • ISBN: 9780733313509
  • Extent: 236 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm)

No society can make a perpetual constitution or even a perpetual law. 
The earth belongs always to the living generation.

– Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, September 6, 1789

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