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ing of competent gardeners throughout our country must become a 

 part of America's preservation and restoration of natural beauty. 



Dr. J. HAROLD SEVERAID. There was a noticeable aversion to giv- 

 ing a definition of beauty. I would like to try. 



Definition of beauty : Beauty is anything which has the potential 

 for pleasing man's eye and through this medium to catalyze the 

 physiology of the body in such manner as to cause a positive reaction 

 which recognizably affects both the heart and the soul of the viewer. 



Ownership of beauty : Any inanimate property whose appearance 

 would be interpreted as beautiful by a majority of the people should 

 be accessible to all of the people either through public ownership 

 or private easement. Governments alone can hold eternal or lasting 

 deeds to property. Thus, government not only has the right but the 

 responsibility to determine its ultimate use in the best interest of the 

 whole people through time. 



Investment in beauty is an investment in oneself, for without 

 beauty one's self may exist but does not really live. 



Aesthetics is to the soul and mind, what food is to the body. 



One begs the question when he says that a monetary value cannot 

 be placed on beauty. I agree that it should not have to bear a price, 

 but we should be able to value it in dollars if we have to. Let's 

 get some properly oriented economists into the conservation field. 

 We must develop a means for attaching economic values to aesthetics. 



Man has forced man to evolve mentally as well as physically. 

 Too often the urbanite no longer realizes that he has become an 

 ersatz organism. He alone among all creatures on earth no longer 

 feels a kinship with the soil. These people yet may know or believe 

 that they are children of God. But, clearly they do not know that 

 they are also children of nature. Restore this recognition and man 

 will demand beauty in his world. 



STANLEY B. TANKEL. The White House Conference on Natural 

 Beauty has produced a profusion of good ideas. Fortunately, many 

 will not be costly to implement. But the price tag for the rest would 

 far exceed available financial resources, even if these are increased 

 dramatically. It is important for the conference, then, not merely 

 to list every good thing that comes to mind, but to offer some guides 

 as to priority. 



Clearly, the need for natural beauty is the greatest in the Nation's 

 graying older cities, in the hearts of our metropolitan areas. This 

 need will not be met without a major infusion of Federal funds for 



