Everything you need to understand or teach Crossing Open Ground by Barry Lopez.
In this collection of essays, noted writer, traveler, and environmental activist Barry Lopez travels to remote regions of North America to explore the interaction between humanity and nature. Common themes in these essays include the humanity's relationship with nature and the relationship between landscape and the human experience.
In the collection's first essay, Lopez travels to the remote, Southern California location of the portrait of a horse, shaped in stone. In...