Frederick Law Olmsted
Even though Olmsted never deliberately prepared for what was to be a great career as a landscape architect, his restless drifting in his youth and early manhood from one endeavor to another proves in retrospect to have been the ideal training for his later work. Throughout this text, it is interesting to watch the cumulative development of his career over the early decades of his life. Although he was what today would be described as a late bloomer, very little of what he experienced was lost on him. Thus his earliest career as a scientific farmer laid a solid foundation, for example, for his later interest in scientific social planning
Print Book, English, ©1982
Twayne, Boston, ©1982