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)
s that apublic road follows a stream, or the shore of a pond. Thepleasantness and beauty of the way consist in the appear-ance and disappearance of the water amid the foliage. Howeasily is this pleasantness destroyed,—how easily and howcheaply it might be permanently preserved! Those stripsand… … CHAPTER XIX THE CREATION OF THE PRELIMINARY METROPOLITANPARK COMMISSION OF 1892-93 That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, ischeerfulness and courage, and tha endeavor to realize our aspirations.— Ralph Waldo Emerson. The meeting of the park commissions and committees…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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