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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
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Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art.
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The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.
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Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Herbert Croly
Robert Smithson
Born:
January 2, 1938
Died:
July 20, 1973
(aged 35)
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