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  • By way of contrast, she evokes her childhood in suburbia: "Like so many Americans raised in suburbia, I have never really belonged to an American landscape," since, as she shrewdly points out, "landscaping, clumped shrubbery from the nursery transplanted under maternal directive on Saturday mornings" is a poor substitute for landscape, nature ornerily asserting itself.

    The New Turf Wars 2008

  • And get ready, if convinced, to conclude that we are not as ornerily, or delightfully, diverse as often pictured.

    Present and overaccounted for 2003

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