THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE 



The American landscape is fit to be 

 admired. It is ours, — our patrimony, — our 

 best inheritance, a greater treasury of 

 beauty than all the art museums of Europe 

 combined, and more truly valuable than 

 all deposits of iron, gold and petroleum. 

 It ought to be loved, — not weakly and from 

 a distance, but intelligently, intimately, 

 and with taste and discrimination. 



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