 | John Nolen - 1911 - 54 pages
...disease, hastening recovery, and conservating the strength of the weak and the infirm of a city." " The chief end of a large park is an effect on the...thought, and cannot be fully given the form of words." SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PARKS AND RELATED TOPICS A COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM OF PABKS FOR ST. PAUL. As... | |
 | Henry Vincent Hubbard, Theodora Kimball Hubbard - 1917 - 948 pages
...introduction of a road or path should destroy the very landscape character it was intended to dis* " First, the chief end of a large park is an effect...thought, and cannot be fully given the form of words." FL Olmsted, Sr., Notes on the Plan of Franklin Park, 1886, p. 106. play. It is definitely to be predicted... | |
 | Henry Vincent Hubbard - 1917 - 636 pages
...introduction of a road or path should destroy the very landscape character it was intended to dis* " First, the chief end of a large park is an effect...thought, and cannot be fully given the form of words." FL Olmsted, Sr., Notes on the Plan of Franklin Park, 1886, p. 106. play. It is definitely to be predicted... | |
 | Henry Vincent Hubbard - 1917 - 588 pages
...introduction of a road or path should destroy the very landscape character it was intended to dis* "First, the chief end of a large park is an effect...thought, and cannot be fully given the form of words." FL Olmsted, Sr., Notes on the Plan of Franklin Park, 1886, p. 106. play. It is definitely to be predicted... | |
 | Therese O'Malley, Marc Treib - 1995 - 346 pages
...that provided what he termed "unconscious, or indirect recreation."10 Their purpose was to produce "an effect on the human organism by an action of what...of thought, and cannot be fully given the form of words."11 The key to designing scenery that would act powerfully on the observer by an unconscious... | |
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First, the chief end of a large park is an effect on the human organism by an action of what it presents to view, which action, like that of music, is of a kind that goes back of thought, and cannot be fully given the form of words. 