Charles Eliot, landscape architect, a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good (1902)
he natural scene of much thatmakes its character and beauty, for the sake of introducingsupposedly decorative elements, such as strange trees and theshort-lived brilliancy of flower beds. Montgomery Place andHyde Park should teach us better. The soft and tranquilbeauty of the gentle landscape of… … ^T. 29] ADAPTING LANDSCAPE TO USE 259 ern country-seats, — that is, in patches scattered here andthere, — would at once kill the effectiveness of these old seats.Their power over the mind and heart consists cliiefly in theunity of the impression which they make. Their scenery isartificial in the…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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