The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me,… — Frederick Law Olmsted Copy Share Image
