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 . .-//; 5/; ^^/V// CHAPTER XXVI FIRST SEVENTEEN MONTHS OF THE EXECUTIVE METRO-POLITAN PARK COMMISSION Shines the last age, the next with hope is seen,To-day slinks poorly off unmarked between:Future or Past no richer secret folds,O friendless Present! than thy bosom holds. Ralph Waldo Emebson. The reports for 1893 and 1894 which Charles made in thename of the firm to the Commission appointed in 1893 areespecially intere
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 . .-//; 5/; ^^/V// CHAPTER XXVI FIRST SEVENTEEN MONTHS OF THE EXECUTIVE METRO-POLITAN PARK COMMISSION Shines the last age, the next with hope is seen,To-day slinks poorly off unmarked between:Future or Past no richer secret folds,O friendless Present! than thy bosom holds. Ralph Waldo Emebson. The reports for 1893 and 1894 which Charles made in thename of the firm to the Commission appointed in 1893 areespecially interesting, because they contain the initial advicehe gave about the boundaries of the acquired reservations,the principles on which reservation boundaries should be deter-mined, the preparation of maps and plans, the protection ofthe woods from fire, the restoration of the vegetation destroyedor damaged by wood-chopping and fires, the making of pathsand temporary roads in the forests, and the encouragement ofseedlings and other new vegetation, and further his sugges-tions about the proposed reservations and parkways. The legislature of 1894 added greatly to the respo
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