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Title: 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 /Charles William Eliot
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926
Subjects: Eliot, Charles, 1859-1897 Landscape gardening
Publisher: Boston :Houghton
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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ies, or bodies of subscribers might do for the Com-monwealth through the Trustees : — In Massachusetts the variety of these choicest local scenesis very great. One is the curving beach of a tiny cove of thesea, enclosed by granite headlands. Another is itself a head-land, or a rugged bit of the ocean bluff of Cape Cod. An-other a lily-pond set in an amphitheatre of woods. Anothera wild ravine, or a quiet grove, or a hill-top, or a strip ofland between a highway and a lake. It often happens 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 bodies of land which ought to be thus held in trust forthe enjoyment of all are seldom of much value to their own-ers. They are too steep or too rocky for agriculture, too in-accessible for house-building.
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CHAPTER XIX THE CREATION OF THE PRELIMINARY METROPOLITANPARK COMMISSION OF 1892-93 That which hefits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, ischeerfulness and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations.— Ralph Waldo Emerson. The meeting of the park commissions and committees ofBoston and the surrounding towns and cities, which the Trus-tees of Public Reservations had determined to call, was heldon December 16, 1891, in the office of the Boston Park Com-mission, General Francis A. Walker, a member of that Com-mission, in the chair. Charles was made secretary. He madethe opening speech, explaining the purpose of the Trustees ofPublic Reservations in calling the meeting, showing mapsof the country within eleven miles of the State House, con-trasting the provision of public open spaces here with thatnear Paris and London, and contrasting also the opportunityfor delightful parks around Boston with the miserable pre-sent. The brief he wrote the day before for this speechi

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