t led americans to believe that their task was to develop a way of life in harmony with nature. These american agrarian believed that a life lived close to nature was a wholesome life, but he insisted that the nature we lived with be well mannered and civilized. The agrarian's love of nature was not in a wilderness forest or nature in the raw, it was in a man-controlled nature. In fact, the wilderness was even consisted a moral and physical wasteland. I believe this, in some sense, still holds true for many americans. We want our presents felt in any situation, especially if it shows power over something, such as nature.
             This middle state between the primitive and the urban was used as many 19th. century author's utopia. Such utopists writers such as Daniel Bond, Leo Marx, and Albert Merrill's described their utopia as a landscaped, garden-like America. They wrote about lusous pastoral landscapes, beautiful farms, and even two hundred foot wide roads with fountains and gardens in the middle. This idea of a cultivated nature was the popular idea of a modern utopia. On the other hand authors such as Thoreau, Emerson , and William Wordsworth loved the natural wilderness. It was an escape from the menacing cruelty and greed found in the city. I believe the modern day inner city park's purpose is somewhere between thses two view points.
             I beleve city parks provide citizens with a feeling of escape and seclusion. In many of our city parks, you can find a place to sit down and look around you, seeing no sign of tall buildings or busy stre
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