Author : Regional Planning Federation
Release : 2018-08-29
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Meadow Forest and Stream for Play Profit and Pure Water by : Regional Planning Federation
Download or read book Meadow Forest and Stream for Play Profit and Pure Water written by Regional Planning Federation. This book was released on 2018-08-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Meadow Forest and Stream for Play Profit and Pure Water: Being a Suggestion for the Use of Certain Neglected Lands of the Tri-State District as Parks, Public Forests, and Water Supply Protection Nto him who hath shall be given, and from him who hath not shall be taken away, even that Which he hath. No region was ever more originally blessed than this Philadelphia Tri State District with that sort of natural beauty which makes for livability. Upon its fertile soil forests flourished with a rare variety of trees and other plants. Through this area ran a sort of biological temperate zone where things that would not grow farther north thrived in its mild winters and long summers. Here, too, grew northern things which could not withstand the hot and long summers of the south. Plentiful moisture and fertile soil brought luxuriant rowth. Such were and, in a few increasingly rare instances, still are the forests of the Philadelphia tri-state District. Clear streams, a half hundred of them, alive with fish and so pure that the traveler might drop to his knees to drink wherever thirst overtook him, meandered over the region with scarcely a square mile that was not touched by one of them or its tributaries. Over much of this area stretched rolling hills, high enough to please the eye and to provide shelter for the nestling homestead, and yet not high enough to repel the physically frail or to interfere with the building of roads and the extension of homes and industry. Such was the heritage Of beauty and material wealth of this Region that fell to the lot of its early settlers. Two hundred and forty-seven years have passed since Penn drew his first plans for his Greene Towne. Today we make an accounting. In all these 3 5 00 square miles of the tri-state District no virgin timber and scarcely a sizable forest remains outside the semi-waste pine lands Of New Jersey. Every stream has its share of pollution making it unsafe for drinking unless treated, and frequently unfit for any recreational use. As our cities have pushed out into fresh lands they have, with few exceptions, laid low the natural beauty that came in their paths, substituting for this their gridiron streets, artificial parks, and rows of struggling street trees. Millions of dollars have been spent in futile effort to_ restore or copy the things we have destroyed; things which frequently of necessity had to be sacrificed to expansion, but which in other instances might have been saved. Many miles are being traveled to attain, and great lengths of expensive road are being built to make accessible, out-of - door play and recreation which once existed in greater measure near at hand. A time is approaching when the flood ing population now rooted here must look to more distant and more costly sources of water. We have been a prodigal people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
