Thirteen ways of seeing nature in LA

Summary

For nature writer Jenny Price, America’s great nature story – nature as “Not-us-ness” – is a denial: “We cherish nature as an idea of wildness while losing track of the real nature in our very houses.” Los Angeles shows the cost, having locked its river in concrete until it was “lost as in could no longer see or find it.”

Rationale

Price’s lost river shows a disposition built as well as told: a story of nature as somewhere else, set in concrete, that hides the river from its city.