From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place
by Deborah Tall

Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Deborah Tall explores the connections we have with places and the loss to us if there are no such connections. Probing other traditions Chinese, Australian Aborigine, Native American to discover the different ways people attach themselves to the land (or fail to) and why it matters, Tall considers the price Americans pay for their mobility and rootlessness, a price exemplified by the poigant paradox of the Finger Lakes region today: In its decline, this ravishingly beautiful landscape has, as its economic mainstay, the nation's largest repository of nuclear weapons, stored on the very Shores of Seneca Lake.