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  • Although "Once Upon a River" emphasizes the landscape's liberating wildness, Margo's journey is ultimately distinct from Huck's: She is not trying to escape civilization but to make peace with it.

    Unfamiliar Journeys Sam Sacks 2011

  • I should emphasize that when I say I adore the Hawaiian landscape's gloomier features, I meant in daylight.

    Aloha? More Like Boo! Sarah Vowell 2011

  • His architectural fantasies – explored in painstaking drawings – have seen him place the tarnished corporate edifices of 1980s London in future wildernesses, and riff on the urban landscape's erotic, dictatorial overtones.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • There are all sorts of problems with that approach too (by no means the least perhaps being the fearful and fell enmity of every surviving bookseller everywhere, online and offline alike), but it illustrates the fact that everything's in flux at the moment and no one knows what the landscape's going to look like, or who'll still be standing, once things settle down.

    Brian Ruckley · MPoaF: Making a Book in the 21st Century 2010

  • For me, nowhere better expresses landscape's dynamic of change.

    Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon 2011

  • His architectural fantasies – explored in painstaking drawings – have seen him place the tarnished corporate edifices of 1980s London in future wildernesses, and riff on the urban landscape's erotic, dictatorial overtones.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • Wrest Park was owned by the De Grey family for nearly 700 years and there are three key stages in the landscape's history – the formal woodland garden created by Henry, Duke of Kent, in 1706; changes made under the direction of Jemima, Marchioness Grey, in the 18th century's latter half; and then the work of her grandson Thomas, Earl de Grey, from 1833.

    'Secret garden' Wrest Park reopens after restoration 2011

  • To walk here is to attune to landscape's evolving nature.

    Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon 2011

  • In Orlando, the landscape's tilt toward the big is obvious up and down Orange Avenue, a 17-mile thoroughfare that runs through much of this city of 267,000 residents.

    A City Feels the Squeeze in the Age of Mega Banks 2010

  • Given the political landscape's decided tilt against Democrats, these measures seem likely to -- at best -- lessen the blow this fall.

    Van Hollen to hit Republicans for 'destructive' agenda 2010

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