Jensen wrote, "Nature is not to be copied - man cannot copy God’s out-of-doors. He can interpret its message in a composition of living tones."* Here the water hazard of the golf course looks much as it must have looked before the gently curving lower part of Jensen's "prairie river" was filled for ball fields.

* Siftings, page 105, 1990, The Johns Hopkins University Press. Originally published in 1939 by Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Publisher, Chicago, Illinois.