In fact, the advocates of People’s Park had asserted another version of what is probably America’s oldest and most cherished fantasy: a daily reality of harmony between man and nature based on an experience of the land land as essentially feminine – that is not simply the land as mother, but the land as woman, the total female principle of gratification – enclosing the individual in an environment of receptivity, repose, and painless and integral satisfaction.

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