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professions, that is, the regional planning, civil engineering, and 

 forestry professions. There is a need here for developing some corps 

 of elite leaders, a group of professional leaders who work together 

 as a team to give the leadership. 



The third area is governmental action. This is being discussed 

 at great length both here and abroad and by the Recreation Ad- 

 visory Council. A great deal of sense has been brought to bear on 

 this. I was very impressed by this morning's meeting. I was im- 

 pressed by the Recreation Advisory Council and its common under- 

 standing of the problem. I want to stress that it is my view that 

 organization of agencies is relatively less important. What is im- 

 portant is that there is a common understanding, and that there is 

 a method of coordinating the work of different agencies. 



In the legislative area, Britain has one thing that I think might 

 be usefully adopted here. We have an amenity clause which is made 

 an actual part of electricity supply, water supply, and all kinds of big 

 projects. It is a standard clause which requires that the project 

 will have regard for amenities, natural science considerations, etc. 

 Together with statements of intent this gives a broad framework 

 which can then be followed up at the executive level by executive 

 orders and, above all, by seeing to it that the financing follows the 

 policy. This is necessary so that you are not, in fact, subsidizing or 

 giving tax concessions to activities which are antisocial. This is 

 one of the most obstinate followthroughs to accomplish. 



I think, just to sum up, we have to look at the forest as a whole. 

 We have these words that have come up so often leadership at the 

 grass roots level, forming the catalyst. These are the sort of factors 

 which have to be considered in handling this vast mass of fluid mate- 

 rial, all the different levels of citizens from the national to local level, 

 and all the different disciplines in line. In order to do that, the peo- 

 ple who are going to do the job must have a better training and a 

 common link in their training. You cannot get these things done 

 simply by committees. All the people who are going to follow 

 through are strangers. You also, of course, have to educate the land 

 users, including those who manage the land. But I think that we 

 must remember that the landscape is a mirror. And that we have 

 to keep looking in that mirror. 



What does the mirror show? I will not attempt to answer that, 

 as Mr. McHarg has already answered it for us. 



