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