God in a park

(cont'd from yesterday's post)

Vice President of New York State Charities Association, Frederick Law Olmsted, designed New York's Central Park with a goal in mind. It was to be:

 “a specimen of God’s handiwork” that would heal “the hundreds of thousands of tired workers” of their “vital exhaustion,” “nervous irritation” and “constitutional depressions.” 

"Olmsted’s and [his assistant] Calvert Vaux’s design of Central Park artfully and systematically provided vistas and paths that would make one feel like the special object of a loving God through a beautiful city. Olmsted said every path, rock, flower and tree had a functional purpose in the creation of a healing scene."

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