How greenways define a place
September 4, 2004• (0) Comments
Sixteenth century French explorer Jean Ribault wrote of a favorite landfall that there is “…no fayrer nor fytter playce” and promptly dropped his anchors to tarry a while.
Something of that spirit must have inspired the Lenape Indians and later inhabitants to claim our own countryside, marked as it is by protective hills, riverbeds and rolling meadows. Even today, when demand for housing is exploding across America’s most densely-populated state and farmers cultivate more building lots than hay, sojourners in the twin boroughs experience a distinct sense of place here, that familiar impression of having arrived somewhere, of standing apart from places astern or places yet to come.