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Designed for recreation: A practical handbook for all concerned with providing leisure facilities in the countryside;

Book by Elisabeth Beazley · 2 quotes · Countryside, Environmental History, Lakes

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“The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniformly blue intruder, often out of scale with its surroundings and nearly always discordant in colour and texture.”

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“During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most countrymen. Many of the holes they dug and dams they built still hold water and are now often regarded as 'natural.' They are of immeasurable value in the landscape.”

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