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notes Introduction. The Power of Place 1. Love, Practical Ecocriticism, 13–36. Love uses the metaphor of “embrace” in the heading “Can Humanism Embrace the Nonhuman?” (23). 2. Rosendale, The Greening of Literary Scholarship; Branch and Slovic, The ISLE Reader. 3. Casey, The Fate of Place, xi. 4. Casey, Getting Back into Place, 252–53. See also Berry, Home Economics, 12–14. 5. For a fine survey of Tuan’s work, from the seminal 1976 article “Humanistic Geography ” to the present, see Entrikin, “Geographer as Humanist.” Entrikin employs an epigraph from Heidegger to structure the essay. The volume in which this essay appears, Adams, Hoelscher, and Till, Textures of Place: Exploring Humanist Geographies, is an excellent collection of twenty-six essays dedicated to Tuan and showing the influence of his thinking on current geography. The most telling literary piece is Howarth, “Reading the Wetlands.” 6. A more recent work by Tuan, Cosmos and Hearth (1996), expands on the themes of Topophilia and Space and Place and deepens the discussion of place. The last seven essays in Adams, Hoelscher, and Till, Textures of Place, are devoted to the theme of Cosmos versus Hearth. Tuan’s introduction to the section notes that the polarized terms are intended not to describe the world but to clarify his arguments. In his essay “Body, Self, and Landscape,” Edward Casey argues for a phenomenological understanding of Tuan’s concepts. 7. Sack, Homo Geographicus, chapters 1–5. 8. The loops and circuits become important in chapters 4, 7, and 8 of Sack’s argument, though I have not attempted to apply this part of the model to my thinking about place. See Homo Geographicus. 9. Cohen, “Blues in the Green,” 30. The entire article is essential reading for students and teachers of environmental literature and history. One. Great Neighbors 1. See bMS Am 1925 (300), Houghton Mifflin Archives, Houghton Library, Harvard University. My reconstruction of the dialogue between Burroughs and Greenslet is 235 236 Notes to Pages 14–35 incomplete, but it suggests that Burroughs was under financial and artistic pressure in the last years of his life. 2. There are several versions of Burroughs’s Writings, none of them complete. The twenty-three-volume Riverby edition is common in libraries, but there is also the WakeRobin edition. For a useful index to the collected works, see the website for the John Burroughs Association, http://research.amnh.org/burroughs/index.html. I quote from the Riverby edition, using its volume and page numbers in my parenthetical citations. 3. Except where noted otherwise, quotations from Burroughs’s journals are my transcriptions of manuscripts contained in the John Burroughs Papers in the Special Collections Department at Vassar College Library. Other printed selections can be found in The Heart of Burroughs’s Journals and The Life and Letters of John Burroughs, both edited by Clara Barrus. 4. “Emerson and His Journals,” 72–73. The original appears in Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, 14:258. A useful compendium is Porte, Emerson in His Journals. On Emerson as antimentor, see Buell, Emerson, 288–334. 5. Lowell, My Study Window, 193–209. 6. The interview appears in Johnston, John Burroughs Talks, 177. 7. All three notebooks are contained in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. I quote the manuscripts unless otherwise noted. 8. Atlantic Monthly 6 (November 1860): 572–77. 9. Burroughs’s copies of Emerson’s Essays: First Series (1857) and Essays: Second Series (1857) are in the Vassar Special Collections Department. The italicized passage appears on page 264 of Essays: First Series; the emphasis is Burroughs’s. 10. Emerson, Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, 43. 11. Most of the correspondence between Benton and Burroughs is contained in the Berg Collection. The lifelong friendship between the two writers is narrated in Life and Letters of John Burroughs. I quote from 1:64. Unfortunately, my efforts to find extant copies of the New York Leader articles have failed. 12. Burroughs Papers, Folder 2.1, in Vassar Special Collections; see also The Heart of Burroughs’s Journals 74–75. 13. Nation 22:66. 14. Edward Waldo Emerson (1844–1930) wrote biographies of his father and Thoreau and edited the twelve-volume centenary edition of Emerson’s Complete Works (1903–4), cited by most scholars until the modern editorial projects at Harvard University began in the 1970s. 15. My transcription is from the Burroughs Papers, Folder 2.3, in Vassar Special Collections ; compare Barrus’s edited version in Life and Letters...