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)
ost much. As palliatives for the present con-dition of things, I recommend : — 1st. The burial of the wires on the Long Beach, the cor-rection of the road lines there, and the planting of a stripalong each side of the road with dwarf bushes. 2d. The acquisition by the town of outlying points… … CHAPTER XVII ADEQUATE OPEN SPACES FOR URBAN POPULATIONS,AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF COAST SCENERY Meantime there is one duty obvious to us all: it is that we shouldset ourselves to guard the natural beauty of the earth: we ought tolook upon it as a crime, an injury to our fellows, only excusable…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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