St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church

What we have lost in the last generation is this assurance and with it the capacity - or the temerity - to contrive Utopias. It is of no use trying to resurrect the vanished forms, beautiful though they may have been; their philosophical justification has gone. All that we can now do is to produce landscapes for unpredictable men where the free and democratic intercourse of the Jeffersonian landscape can somehow be combined with the intense self-awareness of the solitary Romantic. The existential landscape, without absolutes, without prototypes, devoted to change and mobility and the free confrontation of men, is already taking form around us. It has vitality but it is neither physically beautiful nor socially just. Our own American past has an invaluable lesson to teach us: a coherent, workable landscape evolves where there is a coherent definition not of man, but of man's relation to the world and to his fellow men. JB Jackson in Landscapes