奥姆斯德 (Frederick Law Olmsted) 生于1822年4月26日

你有没有去过纽约市的「中央公园」 (Central Park) 呢？出生于1822年4月26日的奥姆斯德是19世纪时美国最优秀的造园技师。他从小成长在康乃狄克州的哈特佛市，对于自然景观的美丽有特别的欣赏眼光。由于他的视力有问题，所以只好放弃读大学的计画，转而学习工程学与农艺。后来，他在1850年代时，被指派负责管理建造「中央公园」的工程。

 
Have you ever been to New York City's Central Park? Born on April 26, 1822, Frederick Law Olmsted became 19th-century America's number one landscape architect. As a boy in Hartford, Connecticut, he had admired natural beauty. Bad eyesight forced him to abandon his plans to attend university, so he studied engineering and farming instead. Eventually he ended up in charge of creating Central Park in the 1850s.

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