Quotes from Denise Kiernan

Be it man or tree or institution, it is better to die too early than too late.

gold for those lives lost,

Life on the Reservation, he observed, was "particularly hard on those who lack a sense of humor.

George had a growing notion to create a working farm, with a village to support the estate where workers, employees, and others might live. He was also coming around to the idea, planted by Olmsted, of making a commitment to scientific and sustainable forestry, a concept foreign to Americans at the time.

Ida Noddack's theories and Lise Meitner's explanations had resulted in a chain reaction of their own, science colliding with military and industry, splitting into compartmentalized and mobilized units, each moving along its own trajectory, ready to make sand jump in the desert.

Napoleon-commissioned Arc de Triomphe.

6,500 square feet.

Calvert Vaux, had already designed the most dynamic city parks of the day, including Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

Chase National Bank in New York

Q: What are you making over there? A: Babies.

Staten Island, where the Vanderbilt family—or van

noted naturalist and Sierra Club cofounder John Muir,

for Columbia University.

Lise, too, had been invited to join the Project but declined. She knew what they were developing. She wanted no part of it.

If architectural excess were a religion, Hunt was surely its patron saint, placing the most ornate of roofs over the heads of the city's elite from cradle to crypt.