“ Landscape gardens, places of recreation and worship, are never made beautiful by destroying and burying them. ”
John Muir, The Yosemite (1912). copy citation
| Author | John Muir |
|---|---|
| Source | The Yosemite |
| Topic | worship |
| Date | 1912 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7091/7091-h/7091-h.htm |
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“On the contrary it is a very uncommon feature; after Yosemite, the rarest and in many ways the most important in the National Park.
“Damming and submerging it 175 feet deep would enhance its beauty by forming a crystal-clear lake.” Landscape gardens, places of recreation and worship, are never made beautiful by destroying and burying them. The beautiful sham lake, forsooth, should be only an eyesore, a dismal blot on the landscape, like many others to be seen in the Sierra. For, instead of keeping it at the same level all the year, allowing Nature centuries of time to make new shores, it would, of course, be full only a month or two in the spring, when the snow is melting fast;”
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