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)
r passage from the same report describes conciselycertain fruitful activities which he recommended to the Trus-tees and personally superintended. In addition to the sympathetic study of the several sug-gested projects just mentioned, the Committee has fi-om thefirst given serious attention to… … ^.T.31] THE FIRST WORK OF THE TRUSTEES 345 terior, the cliffs and beaches of the seashore, and most of theintervening scenes of special beauty are rapidly passing intothe possession of private owners, who hold these places eitherfor their own private pleasure, or for the profit which maybe reaped…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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