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)
. If men can be found who will thus cooperate with parkcommissioners to the end that the lands and landscapes whichthe latter hold in trust shall be cared for and made availablein strict accordance with that trust, excellent results can behoped for in American parks. As before remarked, menwho are… … CHAPTER XXIV LETTERS OF 1894 ON METROPOLITAN PARK WORK The problem of a park ... is mainly the reconciliation of adequatebeauty of nature in scenery with adequate means in artificial construc-tions of protecting the conditions of such beauty, and holding it avail-able to the use, in a convenient…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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