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hand in hand. Let them realize here that this magnificent agriculture 

 has freed our people from drudgery and trial and created in America 

 a new diversity of beauty. In this vast sandbox, let us prepare a 

 playground for our children. Let's give the kids a place to relax 

 and enjoy as their parents drag them across the continent to view the 

 advertised spectacles which the youngsters are not yet ready to 

 appreciate. 



In his remarks on scenic roads and parkways, Kevin Lynch drew 

 attention to the city as scenery. May I add a word of support. 

 In proper perspective our cities have great beauty. Have you 

 observed Manhattan at night, or the Nebraska capital rising in the 

 distance out of the plains, or have you stood at dawn on the Chicago 

 planetarium watching the morning creep over the vast bulk of the 

 city? Those who have will appreciate Wordsworth's description of 

 London in his "Upon Westminster Bridge." 



All our people ought to learn some appreciation of this sort. Only 

 then, as a nation, will we realize that, "The Lord God planted a 

 garden on earth and put the man in the garden to dress it and to 

 keep it." 



It may be true that great works of splendor and beauty have been 

 built by autocratic societies but America in its vastness needs and 

 can have many diversities of beauty. Let us beware of the stereo- 

 type of the uniform national approach. Rather we must call on 

 all our people. Let us avoid a monolith by using local people, local 

 artists, local education, and local research. 



It is not enough to preserve our spectacles, though that must be 

 done; it is not enough to preserve remnants of native vegetation, 

 though that must be done; it is not enough to preserve wilderness 

 areas, though that must be done; it is not enough to hide our junk 

 and curb billboards, though that must be done; it is not enough to 

 create greenbelts around our cities, though that must be done. 

 Beyond this we must marshal all our talent, all our technology, all 

 our wealth and power, indeed all our people, with all their diversity, 

 to this worthy task. We must stifle our inhibitions and in a new 

 freedom we will achieve a new and ever renewing synthesis of 

 America as a work of art whose eternal beauty shall not fade. 



