Now in its third printing
from Trinity University Press






The writers let the earth have its say: the tallgrass prairie and the walled lake, the impact crater and jackstraw timber. This partnership suggests a committed stewardship and a vision even deeper than a naturalist’s view; one can almost hear mountains and hills bursting into song, and trees of the field clapping their hands.
—Jeff Johnson
The Christian Century
Chicago

“Home Ground…is a civilized pleasure, in the way great reference books can be.”
—Oscar Villalon
San Francisco Chronicle

“Unexpected as a concept and fabulously well-executed, a gift in every sense of the word.”
—Beth Kephart
Chicago Tribune

“Tiny essays in the guise of definitions…The book is a way of reclaiming the language that gives definition to landscape from the denatured terms of modern public discourse. It celebrates specificity.”
—James Gorman
New York Times

“Riffling through the encyclopedic volume feels like an act of patriotism, like breathing in a poem by Walt Whitman and hearing all the voices of America in a dazzling clamor of authenticity, humor and eccentricity.”
—Fredric Koeppel
The Commercial Appeal
 Memphis