LANDSCAPE ACTION PROGRAM 501 



While the law can be adjusted as circumstances require, while the 

 medical sciences are ever advancing, the surface of the earth remains 

 limited and subjected to increasing erosion as populations increase. 

 Waste begets wastage and the effects of befoulment are always com- 

 pounded. Ultimately, it is upon the state of the surface that human 

 survival depends. Nothing less than the creation of an open lobby 

 for the insistence of the improved environment in association with 

 the legal and medical professions will achieve balanced and improved 

 results. This is a matter for immediate public participation together 

 with professional leadership, open to all who wish to care for and con- 

 tribute to this aim, the organization being general in scope but sim- 

 ilar to that of the specialized National Trust for Historic Preserva- 

 tion. In brief, a National Institute of Enviriculture is required. 



Such proposals have been made publicly during the last 12 months 

 in Minnesota, Texas, California, and North Carolina. A copy of 

 my address given at the School of Design, North Carolina State, "A 

 Proposal for a National Institute for Enviriculture" will be for- 

 warded if necessary. 



Since the problems of the human envirium are universal, it would 

 be graceful if the White House Conference on Natural Beauty were 

 to confirm its recognition of experiences available from outside the 

 United States (following the invitation to the Director General, 

 The Nature Conservancy, London ) . 



The presence of visitors from the United Kingdom was very much 

 appreciated. Each country has both labor and lessons for the serv- 

 ice of the other, and seldom can such experiences be more easily 

 shared or more gladly conveyed. 



It might be fitting and fortuitous if this White House conference 

 were to become the basis of yet another close association for technical 

 and practical cooperation between the two countries for mutual 

 benefit and worldwide demonstration. It would be highly advan- 

 tageous if it were possible to appoint a British observer for each com- 

 mittee or organization that may emerge from the conference. The 

 resulting exchange of experience and wisdom on means and methods 

 and the wider publicity gained would justify the extension of what 

 may be regarded as domestic issues beyond the borders of these 

 United States. 



Concern for natural beauty follows logically upon our mutual pre- 

 occupation with international progress and the pursuit of peace. 



