3 Quotes & Sayings By Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (May 5, 1822 – March 25, 1898) was an American landscape architect, civil engineer, writer, social critic and revolutionary urban planner. He is best known for creating New York City's Central Park and for writing A Journey in Europe (1857), one of the first books about urban planning.

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This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. Frederick Law Olmsted
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The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth. Frederick Law Olmsted