“[W]hen set to tune” Vicente Diaz, “No Island Is an Island,” in Native Studies Keywords, ed. by Stephanie Nohelani Teves, Andrea Smith, and Michelle Raheja, 2015, 90–107.
“This is a body of knowledge” Ibid., 131.
“This picture he uses” Ibid., 182.
“the canoe was the center” Sam Low, Hawaiki Rising: Hōkūle’a, Nainoa Thompson, and the Hawaiian Renaissance, 2013, 61.
“I can’t explain it” Ibid., 277.
“house of instruction” Kala Baybayan, Interview with author, January 12, 2017.
“my ‘aumakua” Ibid., 322.
Navigating Climate Change
“Earlier, the hunters” Chris Mooney, “In Greenland’s Northernmost Village, a Melting Arctic Threatens the Age-Old Hunt,” Washington Post, April 29, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/in-greenlands-northernmost-village-a-melting-arctic-threatens-the-age-old-hunt/2017/04/29/764ba9be-1bb3-11e7-bcc2-7d1a0973e7b2_story.html.
“Tuvaluans will not cease” Robert A. McLeman, Climate and Human Migration: Past Experiences, Future Challenges, first edition, 2013, 199.
“Current transport, especially domestic” Peter Roger Nuttall, “Sailing for Sustainability: The Potential of Sail Technology as an Adaptation Tool for Oceania; A Voyage of Inquiry and Interrogation through the Lens of a Fijian Case Study,” 2013, 15.
“the connection, the interface” Ibid., 46.
“All indicators were” Ibid., 35.
“My young sons” Ibid., 36.
“far superior to those” Peter Nuttall, Paul D’Arcy, and Colin Philp, “Waqa Tabu—Sacred Ships: The Fijian Drua,” International Journal of Maritime History 26, no. 3 (August 1, 2014): 427–50, doi.org/10.1177/0843871414542736.
“Knut, next to me” Ibid.
This Is Your Brain on GPS
“I think [spatial ability]” Tom Clynes, “How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-Year Study of Super-Smart Children,” Nature News 537, no. 7619 (September 8, 2016): 152, doi.org/10.1038/537152a.
“People who have shrunk” Véronique Bohbot, Interview with author, June 30, 2016.
“Global Determinants” Antoine Coutrot et al., “Global Determinants of Navigation Ability,” bioRxiv (September 18, 2017): 188870, doi.org/10.1101/188870.
“From a dead-reckoning” Stephen C. Levinson, Space in Language and Cognition: Explorations in Cognitive Diversity, 2003, 238.
“There are a lot of researchers” Hugo J. Spiers, Interview with author, April 12, 2016.
“Our results fit” “Satnavs ‘Switch Off’ Parts of the Brain,” University College London News, March 21, 2017, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0317/210317-satnav-brain-hippocampus.
“The GPS diffuses that” Harry Heft, Interview with author, March 16, 2017.
“Whatever is beneficial” Sinéad L. Mullally and Eleanor A. Maguire, “Memory, Imagination, and Predicting the Future,” Neuroscientist 20, no. 3 (June 2014): 220–34, doi.org/10.1177/1073858413495091.
“likely to be useful” Benjamin Baird, Jonathan Smallwood, and Jonathan W. Schooler, “Back to the Future: Autobiographical Planning and the Functionality of Mind-Wandering,” Consciousness and Cognition, From Dreams to Psychosis 20, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 1604–11, doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2011.08.007.
Lost Tesla
“Be Anywhere” Max Londberg, “KC to STL in 20 Minutes? System That Could Threaten Speed of Sound May Come to Missouri,” Kansas City Star, April 7, 2017, http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article143315884.html.
“Whatever our idea of” Mark Vanhoenacker, Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot, reprint edition, 2016, 17.
“comfortable, well-fed” Anne Morrow Lindbergh, “Airliner to Europe,” Harper’s Magazine, September 1948, https://harpers.org/archive/1948/09/airliner-to-europe/.
“[t]here are no distant places” Micheline Maynard, “Prefer to Sit by the Window, Aisle or ATM?” The Lede, 1214616788, https://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/prefer-to-sit-by-the-window-aisle-or-atm/.
“the right to go” Jenifer van Vleck, Empire of the Air: Aviation and the American Ascendancy, 2013, 90.
“the splendor of the world” John Rennie Short, Globalization, Modernity and the City, 2013, 142.
“[a]s the speed of aerial transit” Dave English, “Great Aviation Quotes: Predictions of the Future,” http://aviationquotations.com//predictions.html, accessed May 1, 2017.
“The ‘stratosphere’ planes” Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Listen! The Wind, 1938, ix.
“We’re not selling transportation” Emily Badger, “Why Even the Hyperloop Probably Wouldn’t Change Your Commute Time,” New York Times, August 10, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/upshot/why-even-the-hyperloop-probably-wouldnt-change-your-commute-time.html.
“The compass and the sextant” Nāʻālehu Anthony, presentation at “The Hōkūle’a: Indigenous Resurgence from Hawai’i to Mannahatta,” New York University, March 31, 2016.
“The GPS receiver’s” Claudio Aporta and Eric Higgs, “Satellite Culture: Global Positioning Systems, Inuit Wayfinding, and the Need for a New Account of Technology,” Current Anthropology 46, no. 5 (2005): 729–53, doi.org/10.1086/432651.
“I told him that” Ibid.
“the device paradigm” Albert Borgmann, Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry, 2009, 5.
“the machinery makes” Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David Strong, Technology and the Good Life? 2010, 29.
“The combination of newer” Aporta and Higgs, “Satellite Culture: Global Positioning Systems, Inuit Wayfinding, and the Need for a New Account of Technology,” 729–53.
“Transport of the mails” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, trans. Lewis Galantiere, 2002, 44.
“It is not with metal” Ibid., 43.
“If I can go a hundred miles” Joe Coughlin, presentation at “Planning Ideas That Matter, Faculty Debate: Part 3,” MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, October 12, 2017, https://dusp.mit.edu/event/planning-ideas-matter-faculty-debate-part-3.
“dissembles its own” Ibid.
“will eventually find you” Elon Musk, tweet, @elonmusk, October 3, 2016, https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/789022017311735808?lang=en.
“what is a sparrow” lostTesla, tweet, @LostTesla (blog), October 1, 2017, https://twitter.com/LostTesla/status/923979654704369664.
Epilogue
“[a]nalyzing landscape empowers” John R. Stilgoe, What Is Landscape? 2015, 49.
“[b]eing lost, even being” Ibid., xi.
“Men and boys built gliders” Ibid., 24.
“right to roam” David Derbyshire, “How Children Lost the Right to Roam in Four Generations,” Mail Online, June 15, 2007, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-462091/How-children-lost-right-roam-generations.html.
“If we were on our” Helen E. Woolley and Elizabeth Griffin, “Decreasing Experiences of Home Range, Outdoor Spaces, Activities and Companions: Changes across Three Generations in Sheffield in North England,” Children’s Geographies 13, no. 6 (November 2, 2015): 677–91, doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2014.952186.
“Autonomy is a key” Ibid.
“there is no concept” Jean Piaget, The Construction of Reality in the Child, 2013, 98.
“genius of childhood” Edith Cobb, “The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood,” Daedalus 88, no. 3 (1959): 537–48.
“This plasticity of response” Ibid.
“the spirit of place” Ibid.
“very important kind” James J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception: Classic Edition, first edition, 2014, 229.
“for man, geographical reality” Edward Relph, Place and Placelessness, 1976, 11.
“Before any choice” Janet Donohoe, Remembering Places: A Phenomenological Study of the Relationship between Memory and Place, 2014, 12.
“Of course, peoples of the desert” Yi-Fu Tuan, Topophilia: A Study of Environmental Perception, Attitudes, and Values, reprint edition,
1990, xii.
“a whole system of predispositions” Sarah Gatson, “Habitus,” International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, n.d., http://www.encyclopedia.com.
“think[ing] purely of the external world” Harold Gatty, Finding Your Way Without Map or Compass, reprint edition, 1999, 9.
“ask always the names” Stilgoe, What Is Landscape? 219.
“focal things” Eric Higgs, Andrew Light, and David Strong, Technology and the Good Life? 2010, 31.
“border-land of knowledge” Anna Botsford Comstock, Handbook of Nature Study, first edition, 1986, 4.
“perception and regard” Ibid., 1.
“In the context of massive” Guy Aitchison, “Do We All Have a Right to Cross Borders?” The Conversation, December 19, 2016, http://theconversation.com/do-we-all-have-a-right-to-cross-borders-69835.
“to be rooted is” Simone Weil, The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind, 2001, 43.
“certain particular treasures” Ibid.
“an overwhelming, unexchangeable” Relph, Place and Placelessness.
“persistent thinking of home” W. H. McCann, “Nostalgia: A Review of the Literature,” Psychological Bulletin 38, no. 3 (March 1, 1941): 165–82.
“the chirp of crickets” Ibid.
“mother centering tendency” Ibid.
“This century has” Robyn Davidson, Desert Place, first edition, 1996. 5.
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