Summary Of A Literature Of Place

In the essay A Literature of Place, by Barry Lopez he addresses the topic of Nature writing and Landscape writing. He believes that nature makes writing comes alive. If you know your landscape, you will write about it better. The way we imagine is often affected by scent. For example, animals can respond to what we can’t, because they can smell things that we can’t. Another point Lopez makes is that you will return to what you already know. Using imagery, Lopez explains that by hearing a flap of wings or a leaf falling in the wind, we can make a story with what we already know about those things, like the bird is flying away or the leaf is falling to the ground. Feeling like you belong in a place, gives you a place in the universe. For this