lf Collins Constant, and Bois resurrect the bridge between the visual, the spatial and the temporal inherent in the Picturesque, Smithson's essays are bridges of another sort-- between ecological and artistic concerns, between the geolog past and the present. His reading of Price's Three Essays on the Picturesque(Ismo) and Burke's Inquiry into the ori. gin of our idoas of the sublime and the Beautiful(1757) recovers the"physical sense of the temporal Picturesque through an interpretation of Central Park. He recounts Price's Pic- turesque descriptions of rough slopes overgrown through time, of trees struck bylightning, and of abandoned quarries and gravel pits. He quotes the following passage from Price's Three Esays on the Picturesque