Tag: landscape

  • The last years of J.B. Jackson

    Passages from William Langewiesche’s Inside the Sky interspersed with quotations from John Brinckerhoff Jackson’s own writing on landscape. Normally typeset passages from Langewiesche, block quotes from Jackson. *    *    * To his neighbors he was known simply as John, a patron of the community, yes, but also a profane and wizened old man who…