The Soul of Place Quotes

“What better way to read the landscape than by walking through it?”
― Linda Lappin, The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci

“The soul of place is like an invisible net --or a force field -- cast up at times from within a house, neighborhood, or landscape to draw us into its labyrinthine folds.”
― Linda Lappin, The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci

“The deep map configures narratives. It is a matrix of intertexual storytelling, charting our movements through the landscape.”
― Linda Lappin, The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci

“A deep map is a sample swatch of the multiple manifestations of the genius loci.”
― Linda Lappin, The Soul of Place: A Creative Writing Workbook: Ideas and Exercises for Conjuring the Genius Loci