Scenery
Preserving Outstanding Scenic Landscapes
Scenic Threats“. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.” -President Lyndon Johnson’s Message on Natural Beauty
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Scenic Assessment“Let us have a splendid legacy for our children . . . let us turn to them and say ‘this you inherit and guard it well, for it is far more precious than money . . . and once it is destroyed, nature’s beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.’” -Ansel Adams, Speech in Monterey County
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Scenic Protection“Choosing to save a river is more often an act of passion than of careful calculation. You make the choice because the river has touched your life in an intimate and irreversible way, because you are unwilling to accept its loss.” -David Bolling, How to Save a River: Handbook for Citizen Action
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Design Standards“Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.” -Alan Watts, British philosopher, California resident, supported the budding American environmental movement of the mid-20th Century
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Viewshed Mapping“We abuse land because we view it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” -Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
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