Forest and Garden

Melanie L. Simo is the author, with Peter Walker, of Invisible Gardens: The Search for Modernism in the American Landscape, among other books.

Simo gives us a graceful and detailed review of the mixture of wildness and control in the American environment and the men and women who cared passionately about the balance between the two conditions. - Roderick Frasier Nash, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of Wilderness and the American Mind