Notes for Book 1
Preface — has complexities: Chapman, John L. Incredible Los Angeles 10 / coastal plains: McWilliams, Southern California 6 / degradation of urban rivers: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 129 / Confluence zones: Rice et al., “The Ecological Importance of Tributaries & Confluences” 216
Chapter 1. “This Curious Assemblage of Lines” — indeed a river: Playfair, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory 102–03
1.1 — saluted each other: Reid, The Indians of Los Angeles County 38 / too noisy: MacAdams, “Restoring the Los Angeles River” 62 / only way: Emerson, “Friendship” 202
1.2 — mediators between: Harley, “The Map and the Development of the History of Cartography” 1 / humans act: Edney, Foreword to Mapping Latin America xv / use maps: Coleman, “Poems as Maps” (web) / Maps used in background, from L to R: Map of the Los Angeles River Basin, Cartography by Gregory Woolston using data from (Shannon1, 2011), Natural Earth, and OpenStreetMap Contributors (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LARmap.jpg); Thomas Guide 594; Apple Maps; Mid-River, FoLAR (https://folar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/LARiverMap-MIDRIVER.pdf) / counter-friction to stop: Thoreau, “Civil Disobedience” 368
1.3 — thing stretched: Jones, “A River without a Chuckle,” Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1991 / not a river: Morrison, Río L.A. 22 / what is it: Epictetus, Enchiridion 201 / intricate, interconnected fractal: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 147
1.4 — incalculable value: Morrison, Río L.A. 78 / being constricted: Olmsted Bros. & Bartholomew, Parks, Playgrounds & Beaches for the Los Angeles Region 130 / ancient times: Ettema, “Management of Confluences” 104
1.5 — tributary junctions: Rice, Kiffney, Greene, & Pess, “The Ecological Importance of Tributaries & Confluences” 235–36 / people of Los Angeles: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 114 / interesting properties: Benda, “Confluence Environments at the Scale of River Networks” 272 / go a-fishing: Thoreau, Walden 109
1.6 — relatively steep: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 72 / Eck, “Rivers” 7861–62 / Hell calls: Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Scene 13 (line 1317) (web) / la vida: Ozomatli, “Dos Cosas Ciertas” (song)
1.7 — advent of GPS: Waldie, “Geography of Home” 11 / sweetly familiar: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 19 / possible, in fact: Jones, “A River without a Chuckle,” Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1991 / maps are fictions: Waldie, “Geography of Home” 11 / spiral-bound Sacagawea: Beatty, The Sellout 89
1.8 — trace up rivers: Playfair, Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory 351 (emphasis in original) / tributaries add: Ferguson & Hoey, “Effects of Tributaries on Main-channel Geomorphology” 183 / should be clear: Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem 179
1.9 — city directory: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 60 / true California: Didion, Slouching Toward Bethlehem 180 / when faced: Edney, Cartography 21 / major tributaries: Garrett, The Biota of the Los Angeles River 13–14
1.10 — confluences may not: Ettema, “Management of Confluences” 95 / web of texts: Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History 40 / ID#239844: USGS, “Feature Detail Report for Burbank Western Channel” (web) / High Density Residential: State of California, “Los Angeles River Watershed” (web)
1.11 — map says: Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” 1 / literally left off: Pulido et al., A People’s Guide to Los Angeles 4 / river shrank: Linton, “Mapping Los Angeles’ Missing River” 98 / city directory: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 60 / reinforce and legitimate: Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” 14 / graphic formula: Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” 13 / social structure: Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” 6
1.12 — unreliable river: Waldie, “Geography of Home” 10 / prominent reference: Linton, “Mapping Los Angeles’ Missing River” 98 / demeaned and underappreciated: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 99 / “Birds Eye View of Los Angeles California”: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 44–45 / “Map of the City of Los Angeles”: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 48–49 / “Map of the Proposed Sewer System for the City of Los Angeles”: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 102–03 / “Topographic Map of the Los Angeles Aqueduct”: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 96–97 / “Los Angeles Public Library. Branch Libraries”: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 76–77 / “The Heart of Los Angeles”: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 78–79 / “The Travelure Map of Los Angeles & Vicinity”: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 138–39 / “The Old Spanish & Mexican Ranchos of Los Angeles County”: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 28–29 / “The Kirkman-Harriman Pictorial & Historical Map of Los Angeles County 1860 AD”: Creason, Los Angeles in Maps 24–25
1.13 — discursive conditions: Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History 177 / an infinite amount of merit: Feldhaus, Connected Places 169 / complex phenomena: Mosley, “An Experimental Study of Channel Confluences” 535
1.14 — object of mapping: Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” 4 / ritual as a whole: Feldhaus Connected Places 38 / rectangular reinforced-concrete: Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, Los Angeles River Master Plan 287
1.15 — making a map: / Harley, “Deconstructing the Map” 11 / outward and visible: Morrison, Río L.A. 121 / [M]aps are devices: Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History 21 / river is happening: Carruth, “A Brief History of Public Art and the L.A. River” (web) / at least forty-five: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 31 / Before and After: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 230 / river vanished: Morrison, Río L.A. 23 / explore, enjoy: Project 51, “Play the LA River” (web) / spatial complexity: Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History 41
1.16 — Tujunga Wash: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 149 / deep, clear ponds: Alvitre, “Coyote Tours” 46 / palm trees: Green, The Unofficial Gilligan’s Island Handbook 7
1.17 — processes are fluid: Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and Its History 234 / unalloyed stream: Orr, “Reflections on Resilience in a ‘Black Swan’ World” (web) / making us blind: Orr, “Reflections on Resilience in a ‘Black Swan’ World” (web) / Carruth, “A Brief History of Public Art and the L.A. River” (web)
Chapter 2. Guides to Wonder — land of gold: Stoddard, Beyond the Rockies 49 / those who read: Phillips, Los Angeles; A Guide Book (unpag. preface) / air of Hollywood: de Lis, Frommer’s Los Angeles 161 / really isn’t: McCave, Time Out Los Angeles5
2.1 — readers of this pamphlet: Brook, Los Angeles, California 75 / no longer exists: Garret, The Biota of the Los Angeles Riveriv / wash me: Green, “Take Me to the River” (album) / real river: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 3 / help you experience: Goldman, The Little Black Book of Los Angeles 8
2.2 — silicon-enhanced fantasy: Goldman, The Little Black Book of Los Angeles 7 / concrete channels: Garrett, The Biota of the Los Angeles River 5 / one turtle: Bezy et al., “Reptiles and Amphibians of the Los Angeles River Basin” E2 / no cover: Barkley, “Mammals of the Los Angeles River” G2
2.3 — finest climate: Nordhoff, California: For Health, Pleasure, & Residence 118–19 / question was: Adams, To and fro in Southern California 61 / Such is Los Angeles: Brewer, Up and Down California in 1860-1864 13 / perpetual spring: Brewer, Up and Down California in 1860–1864 13 / still unsettled: Brewer, Up and Down California in 1860–1864 14 / outstanding book: Layne, Books of the Los Angeles District 45 / sunny days: Truman, Semi-tropical California 48 / land of gold: Stoddard, Beyond the Rockies 49 / many attractions: Truman, Semi-tropical California 20 / Boomer literature: Sackman, “A Garden of Worldly Delight” 247 / WHAT TO SEE: Nordhoff, California: for health, pleasure, and residence (unpag. table of contents) / most influential: Walker, A Literary History of Southern California 107 / on the map: McWilliams, Southern California 149
2.4 — cement ditch: Ernest Borgnine, quoted in Roraback, Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 1985 / ugly deep channel: Olmsted et al., Parks, Playgrounds & Beaches for the Los Angeles Region 130 / devoid of water: Brook, Los Angeles, California 23 / cement troughs: Rand, Los Angeles: The Ultimate City 44 / raging turmoil: Robinson, Los Angeles: A Profile 25 / accumulation of sweat: Chapman, Incredible Los Angeles 205 / trickle in summer: Rand, Los Angeles: The Ultimate City 34 / like other rivers: Bartlett, The Better City 32 / re-routed, tamed: Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 32 / ancient possibilities: Bartlett, The Better City 32 / mighty Porciuncula: Roraback, Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 1985 / cement-lined channel: Robinson, Los Angeles: A Profile 25 / Los Angeles Eunuch: Roraback, Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 1985 / specialized habitat: Garrett, The Biota of the Los Angeles River 6 / dire strait: Roraback, Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 1985 / human invention: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 94 / US-Mexican border: Benson et al., Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California 196 / stretched-out shoebox: Roraback, Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 1985 / cipher, invisible: Morrison, Río L.A. 20 / magnet for settlement: Gumprecht, “Who Killed the Los Angeles River?” 122 / flood control: Federal Writers’ Project, California 201 / giant gutter: Elrick, Los Angeles River 7 / conveyor belt: Morrison, Río L.A. 53–54 / used, abused: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 3 / blank space: Waldie, “The Myth of the L.A. River” 84
2.5 — pleasant thought: Rindge, Happy Days in Southern California 9 / absurdly overpraised: Van Dyke, Millionaires of a Day 84 / orange and lemon: Truman, Semi-tropical California 48 / Brook, The Land of Sunshine 3 / land flowing: Truman, Semi-tropical California (unpaginated preface) / second Eden: Truman, Semi-tropical California 27 / peculiarly favored: Brook, The Land of Sunshine 6–7 / indolent native: Truman, Semi-tropical California 27
2.6 — loved and scorned: Dickey, The Rough Guide to Los Angeles & Southern California 4 / open-air life: Brook, The Land of Sunshine 11 / intoxicating fragrance: McWilliams, Southern California 230 / technically illegal: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 236 / native riparian: Garrett, “The Avifauna of the Los Angeles River” F-68 / annually flooded: Garrett, “Introduction,” The Biota of the Los Angeles River 5
2.7 — nature’s peacefulness: Phillips, Los Angeles; A Guide Book 11 / when you come: Brook, Los Angeles, California 75 / going back: Sackman, “A Garden of Worldly Delight” 252 / well supplied: Truman, Semi-tropical California 20 / oldest and largest: Appletons’ Hand-book of American Travel: Western Tour 281 / those streams: Adams, To and fro in Southern California 67–68 / Los Angeles river: Phillips, Los Angeles; A Guide Book 1 / stupid but friendly: Phillips, Los Angeles; A Guide Book 2 / sprung up: Brook, Los Angeles, California 13 / rapid growth: Brook, Los Angeles, California 17 / Artist’s Paradise: Brook, Los Angeles, California 63 / MUCH BUSINESS: Brook, Los Angeles, California (cover) / now-familiar self: Walker, A Literary History of Southern California 229 / national nitwittery: Basil Woon, quoted in Robinson, What They Say about the Angels 53 / sprawling, incoherent: Westbook Pegler, quoted in Robinson, What They Say about the Angels 59 / way-out political: Chapman, Incredible Los Angeles 10 / steadily coming: Federal Writers’ Project, California 214 / real Western: Chapman, Incredible Los Angeles 14 / Land of Fiction: Powell, Land of Fiction 139 / widening stain: Powell, Land of Fiction ix / first super-city: Chapman, Incredible Los Angeles 6–7 / ultimate city: Rand, Los Angeles: The Ultimate City 3 / fabulous city: Robinson, Los Angeles from the Days of the Pueblo 10 / emptiness in summertime: Rand, Los Angeles: The Ultimate City 44 / ever-changing contraption: Rand, Los Angeles: The Ultimate City 33
2.8 — offers an abundance: Goldman, The Little Black Book of Los Angeles 23 / Consumerism, Culture: McCave, Time Out Los Angeles 8 / top sights: de Lis, Frommer’s Los Angeles 31 / contribute to inequality: Pulido et al., A People’s Guide to Los Angeles 5
2.9 — select sites: Pulido et al., A People’s Guide to Los Angeles 4 / report monotony: Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 5
2.10 — shimmering between: Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder 60 / guided along: The Museum of Jurassic Technology (web) / specialized repository: The Museum of Jurassic Technology (web) / wonder-cabinet: Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder 60 / signifies negation: Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder 35 / Things to See: The Museum of Jurassic Technology (web) / reintegrate people: Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder 60 / fostering an environment: Weschler, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder 44
2.11 — regularly watch: Dickey, The Rough Guide to Los Angeles & Southern California 32 / great American: de Lis, Frommer’s Los Angeles 10 / first glance: McCave, Time Out Los Angeles 42 / one regrets: Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 91 / native Angeleno: de Lis, Frommer’s Los Angeles (frontmatter) / most entertaining: de Lis, Frommer’s Los Angeles 1 / Los Angeles Today: de Lis, Frommer’s Los Angeles 9 / Eat | Drink: McCave, Time Out Los Angeles (cover) / ugly concrete: Benson et al., Lonely Planet Los Angeles, San Diego & Southern California 66 / twisted oddities: Goldman, The Little Black Book of Los Angeles 143 / mixed with the fantastical: McCave, Time Out Los Angeles 62 / great range: Dickey, The Rough Guide to Los Angeles & Southern California 120 / natural state: Dickey, The Rough Guide to Los Angeles & Southern California 66 / inch of its life: McCave, Time Out Los Angeles 42
2.12 — hair-raising merge: Dickey, The Rough Guide to Los Angeles & Southern California 27 / publisher nor author: de Lis, Frommer’s Los Angeles (frontmatter) / accept responsibility: Goldman, The Little Black Book of Los Angeles (frontmatter) / checks and balances: Wolf, Reader, Come Home 57 / Soft-bottom reaches: Garrett, The Biota of the Los Angeles River 5 / as many risks: Thoreau, Walden 170 / out of the house: Emerson, Nature 25
2.13 — your mitts: Morrison, “Foreword” xiv / book will: MacAdams, “From the Friends of the Los Angeles River” xvii / Egret Park: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 93 / Walk upstream: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 93 / your left: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 94 / were plentiful: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 94 / walking upstream: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 94 / sycamores and cottonwoods: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 95
2.14 — amusement park: de Lis, Frommer’s Los Angeles 1 / awful vastness: The Museum of Jurassic Technology (web), (quoting Valentine Worth, on the Magneticum Naturae Regnum of Athanasius Kircher) / inspiring legacies: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River (frontmatter; dedication to Merrill Butler) / these bridges: Linton, Down by the Los Angeles River 265
Chapter 3. The Porciúncula Variations — probably millions: Robinson, Los Angeles: A Profile 25 / would not be: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 93 / midpoint lies: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part I (web) / human heart: Quammen, “Vortex” 51
3.1 — principal ancestral: Alvitre, “Coyote Tours” 46 / lived in a network: Starr, “Foreword” xii / began pouring: Adams, To and fro in Southern California 62 / called the river: Morrison, Río L.A. 38 / home building: McCawley, The First Angelinos 116 / run hot: McCawley, “Introduction” to O, My Ancestor xxvii / people of the East: Bean and Smith, “Gabrielino” 548 / what we call ourselves: Alvitre, “Coyote Tours” 44 / strange things heard: Crespí, A Description of Distant Roads, 337–43 /seven giants: Jurmain and McCawley, O, My Ancestor 211
3.2 — has also been: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 93 / gives us a whirl: Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 85 / up the creek: Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 100
3.3 — pre-Spanish days: Robinson, Los Angeles: A Profile 25 / pueblo and its successor: Guinn, A History of California & an Extended History of Los Angeles & Environs I.390 / rotating black hole: Lugt, Vortex Flow in Nature and Technology 221
3.4 — one of those streams: Adams, To and fro in Southern California 67–68 / shifted, eroded, flooded: Ettema, “Management of Confluences” 104 / lover of poetry: Bartlett, The Better City 32 / full-flowing river: Crespí, A Description of Distant Roads 337 / forded the Rio: Bancroft, History of California 146 / first white men: Guinn, A History of California & an Extended History of Los Angeles & Environs I.356 / there were rivers: Powell, “Strictly Local” 348 / simple beginnings: Robinson, Los Angeles from the Days of the Pueblo 10 / utmost importance: Layne, Annals of Los Angeles 49 / increased development: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 83 / dumping ground: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 111
3.5 — wasn’t always: Salazar, “The LA River and the Corps: A Brief History” (web) / abrupt influx: Benda, “Confluence Environments at the Scale of River Networks” 272 / film and television: Elrick, Los Angeles River 89 / wide-eyed clowns: Cornell Lab of Ornithology, “Acorn Woodpecker” (web)
3.6 — proverbially “dry”: McWilliams, Southern California 196 / not a single river: McWilliams, Southern California 184 / sluggish stream: Davis, Ecology of Fear 16–17 / paradoxical land: McWilliams, Southern California 184 / heavy and continuous rain: Layne, Annals of Los Angeles 11 / great flood: Layne, Annals of Los Angeles 15 / whole stacks of hay: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 106 / Noachian deluge: Guinn, A History of California I.289 / even caskets: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 157 / most damaging: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 167–68 / mischievous trouble-maker: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 122 / wild beast: Fradkin, The Seven States of California 326 / epochal flood: Morrison, Río L.A. 62 / marathon swimmers: McWilliams, Southern California 196
3.7 — Garrett, Introduction to The Biota of the Los Angeles River i–ii / sit astride: Hawthorne, “Thickets of Density, Swaths of Emptiness” 481
3.8 — circle rounds: Lillard, Eden in Jeopardy 107–08 / public works: Starr, Endangered Dreams 321 / rarely shines: Thoreau, A Week on the Concord & Merrimack Rivers 124 / control projects: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 3 / declared war: Starr, Endangered Dreams 321 / messy whim: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 110 / unruly nature: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 127 / corralled, contained: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 127
3.9 — simply surreal: Fradkin, The Seven States of California 326 / Everything is only: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 40 / complexity and paradox: Hirshfield Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry 102 / accommodates everything: Kenkō, Essays in Idleness 192
3.10 — climate and environment: Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies 13 / landscapes of desire: Hise, “Situating Stories” 414/ exerted in vain: Thoreau, A Week 124 / Arcadia and Utopia: McClung, Landscapes of Desire 5–12 / able to command: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 6 / covering up places: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 7 / prominent feature: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 98 / nature’s messy whim: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 110 / stubborn stream: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 126 / corralled, contained: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 127 / once was: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 127 / surely flow together: Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe 94
3.11 — was a schoolboy: Carr, Los Angeles 14 / what value: Bartlett, The Better City 33 / road crossings: Bowler, Río de Dios: Thirteen Histories of the Los Angeles River 18 / river may be: Morrison, Río L.A. 83
3.12 — river was ignored: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 111 / scar on the landscape: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 236 / ugly and forbidding: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 236 / birth of a movement: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 250 / efforts to revitalize: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 301
3.13 — ultimately natural: Sackman, “A Garden of Worldly Delight” 248
3.14 — made a commitment: Roraback, Los Angeles Times Nov. 28, 1985 / this book: Fradkin, The Seven States of Californiaxviii / need to rewrite: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part I (web) / extremely popular: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 254 / did not know: Roraback, “Reflecting on the Muddy Banks of a Town of Tinsel,” Los Angeles Times Nov. 28, 1985 / mighty Porciuncula: Roraback, “Up a Lazy River, Seeking the Source,” Los Angeles Times October 20, 1985 / Los Angeles Eunuch: Roraback, “Small Tales From Along Lario Trail,” Los Angeles Times Oct. 31, 1985 / stretched-out shoebox: Roraback, “Of Goats, Pans, Poetry and an ‘Airwolf’ Episode,” Los Angeles Times Nov. 21, 1985 / dire strait: Roraback, “Getting Closer & Closer—but That’s Par for the Source,” Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 1985 / splendid sump: Roraback, “It’s Another Case of Double Dribble,” Los Angeles Times Jan. 23, 1986 / all odds: Roraback, “From Basin Camp, the Final Assault,” Los Angeles Times Jan. 30, 1986 / storybook explorers: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 253 / by car: Fradkin, The Seven States of California 326 / searching for history: Fradkin, The Seven States of California 321 / most Angelinos: Fradkin, The Seven States of California 326 / drew me: for an earlier discussion of Price’s work, see my essay “Strange Waters—Confluences in the Los Angeles Basin” / imagines nature: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part II (web) / narrative vortex: ibid. / stories we tell [and following quotations]: ibid.
3.15 — weather of catastrophe: Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem 219–20 / ordinary toads: Van Dyke, Millionaires of a Day 208 / no matter: Lugt, Vortex Flow in Nature and Technology 162
3.16 — every aspect: McWilliams, Southern California 104–05 / defining landscape: Davis, Ecology of Fear 71 / natural facts: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part I (web) / is built: ibid.
3.17 — strange twists: Fradkin, The Seven States of California 327 / happiness is: Williams, “Happy: The World’s First 24 Hour Music Video” (web) / chosen to manage: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in LA” 230
3.18 — views of nature: Emerson, English Traits 52 / land of exaggerated: McWilliams, Southern California 270 / ideal place: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part I (web) / ibid. / quite allergic: ibid. / landscape and ecology: ibid. / build cities: ibid. / social position: ibid. / Not-us-ness: ibid. / exceptionally powerful: ibid. / Human Meaning: ibid. / actions within: ibid. / foundational nature: ibid. / wanton destructiveness: ibid.
3.19 — guided hikes: Los Angeles Urban Rangers (web) / 51 miles & 51 weeks: Project 51, “Play the LA River” (web) / such topics: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part I (web) / urban exploration: Project 51, “Play the LA River” (web)
3.20 — hydrologic system: Kahrl, Water and Power 252 / bulk of its flow: Gumprecht, The Los Angeles River 13 / can’t find: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part I (web) / rough center: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part II (web) / ecological center: ibid. / notorious troubles: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part I (web) / not lost: ibid.
3.21 —they speak: Alvitre, “Coyote Tours” 45 / vortex motion: Lugt, Vortex Flow in Nature and Technology 8 / beautiful order: Davenport, 7 Greeks: Translations 162 / sketches and drawings: Pound, “Vorticism” 291n / acknowledge your connections: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part II (web) / creative and regulative: “nature, n.,” Oxford English Dictionary (web) / history, biography, and reference works: “non-fiction, n.,” Oxford English Dictionary (web) / narrative vortex: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part II (web)
3.22 — men have become: Lillard, Eden in Jeopardy 93–94 / L.A. storytelling: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part II (web) / nature and history: Starr, “Foreword” to Río L.A. 16 / defiled landscape: Wilcox, “Stalking Carp” 149 / toothless creature: Morrison, Río L.A. 19 / back on the map: Coburn, “Whose River Is It, Anyway?” 20 / turbulent fluids: Quammen, “Vortex” 50 / lose track: Price, “Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A.” Part I (web) / errant treatment: ibid.