22 CONFERENCE ON NATURAL BEAUTY 



The third point is that natural beauty greatly influences the 

 quality of the individual lives we lead. 



When Americans turn down the street where they live, there can 

 be cleanliness and touches of green no matter how pretentious 

 or how humble the home or there can be decay and neglect and 

 depression. 



When Americans arrive at their work, whether it be the White 

 House or a mill, there can be touches of beauty or there can be grime 

 and dirt and spirit-deadening indifference. 



When Americans drive along our roads and highways, there can 

 be pleasing vistas and attractive roadside scenes or there can be end- 

 less corridors walled in by neon, junk, and ruined landscape. 



When Americans seek the countryside, there can be pleasing land- 

 scapes, healthy air and water and places of beauty or there can be 

 a wasteland of gravel pits, overgrown fields, and places of refuse 

 rather than refuge. 



These are the choices. For the next 36 hours we in this room 

 have a unique opportunity to help direct the choices. 



We cannot solve all the problems of creating a beautiful America 

 in these hours, but we can take a big step perhaps many steps 

 in that direction. 



Tomorrow we report directly to the President of the United 

 States, and we also report to the people of the United States. There 

 is every reason to believe that they are eager to follow up on any 

 recommendation. 



Therefore, let us now go to work. 



