Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 11 Jan 1940, p. 24

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U. S. CAMERAI.940 Ov.r300 picfumes by Amowicals 17di24 Orrnt. Av.. orrigtn Motel Buiding LEC m atth« Jens Jenslen, the andscape architect, a former W now making his home at Ellison Bay, ' Wi., ha set dowi his theories andi practu.,es ini a new book entitled "Si! ting 7 Ralph Fletcher Seymour of Chicago. Excellently printi it inclucies two folding plates of typical landscape1 author believes express 1hs principles. JBy Sue $anders (Doubieday Doran) Here's an answer to Grapes of Wrath more eloquent than any essay full of tacts, for it is a human docu- ment. Sarah Weiland moved to Tex- -as and there she battled against every obstacle nature could.present,- Sdrought, an unyielding soil. cattle r By Jens Jensen-Ralph Fletcher Sey- I ~ mour, Chicago K in h Jensen is a lover of nature in he ruesense, and in this wror- ship lies the' essence of his philos- ~ ~ ophy et landscape architecture 'as ep ressed in a new book entitled ,Sifings, a book which :condenses in I < a, few pages many yearÈs of note taking and careful thought. It i easy for a man like Jensen, Nrugged in. body,, mind and soul, to believe that nature is fine,'beautiful and infallible in scale. And whether one agrees with his piflosophy, or nfot, it is, refreshing ýand uniifting Sto breathe from his book that rari- lied and spiritual quality which out- door'life'has, inspired, in hîm., DilIkes Big Cities -~ To Jens Jensen great cities, storie - Piles housing. congested humanity,, devoid of ýal "living green," are abominations stifling mind and soul and breeding crime and disease. N - -,City planning today he finds in a sad state of ineglect. k The art of landscaping has its source, Jensen believes, in our na- *ive landscape. Flowers, shrubs and Strees should be native; suited te) the envîronment, they are the only Vilmette res'dent ones which belong and will continue. %~ his pliiloaophy, to survive. Not only that, but cer- rs," publislzed by tain plant combinations may prove led on fine paper to be either friendly or unfriendly, plans which the he explains. Designing to Mr. Jensen ineanS -, nôt a compl~ete cfttine aziwav of n4 LBy £IeAlR Kkpatick (crlbners> ) Foreign correspondent of the Chi- maples, ail cago Daily 'News, the author of! hi years. ý fine first-hand eye-witness-account of Diser the scenes which led up to the dec- Formalisnr laration o! war is sprightly reading. (as oppose& There are countless interviews with thema to Mv famous people, there are excursions believer in b with the typewriter under the armn to pains to proq the council chambers' of the mighty shadow or si and there are qtuck and pertinent cipal part conclusions drawn frorn the crisis Rhythm and L Ulid, a&pw ILLL , Vi- roses,. willows, oaks and found here hundreds of ýredits Formaiism .m and geometric pattern 1to curves) are an ana- [r. Jensen. Yet, a great beauty, he will take great duce just the right light, scale, which play a priri- Sin . arduen main'- Awoman by GvMe taautrei ART IAR. 1 Zoug anIi Yes- published

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