Uses myths, legends, images, and ideas from around the world to tell how four basic natural elements have inspired people in the past.

The book describes the structure, composition and evolution of the Earth, the main geological processes occurring on it, and how some crucial environmental matt

Forced to interact with the natural elements that invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building's experiential reality during construction, one ought

Bachelard called them "the hormones of the imagination." Hegel observed that, "through the four elements we have the elevation of sensuous ideas into thought."

Copyright date of 1st rev. ed.: 2005. 1st ed. published in 1991.