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The construction of nature - Central Park revisited

Year: 2005
Type: report
Abstract: 1 "The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us into just relations with men and things."Lecture given to the Mercantile Library Association in Boston on 7th February, 1844, from www.emersoncentral.com,22nd February 2005. 2 "Beauty, convenience, grandeur of thought, and quaint expression are as near to us as to any, and if the American artist will study with hope and love the precise thing to be done by him, considering the climate, the soil, the length of the day, the wants of the people,
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2503974359
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