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Fishy Cover · 08-18-2005, 10:47 PM

Wealth and taste are very different attributes and many have the former without the latter.

Look at Squam Lake: there are multi-billionaires who build extraordinary homes and painstakingly landscape them to keep them in harmony with their surroundings and keep the shoreline verdant. The homes are elegant but fit in their surroundings. They respect the lake ambience, the very reason they want to be here in the first place. Understatement is the norm, garish displays of wealth are considered gauche.

I think that anyone who is fortunate enough to own waterfront property has a responsibility to society to keep it as close to natural as possible.

08-18-2005, 10:47 PM	#23
Fishy Cover Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 134 Thanks: 10 Thanked 13 Times in 12 Posts	Taste Wealth and taste are very different attributes and many have the former without the latter. Look at Squam Lake: there are multi-billionaires who build extraordinary homes and painstakingly landscape them to keep them in harmony with their surroundings and keep the shoreline verdant. The homes are elegant but fit in their surroundings. They respect the lake ambience, the very reason they want to be here in the first place. Understatement is the norm, garish displays of wealth are considered gauche. I think that anyone who is fortunate enough to own waterfront property has a responsibility to society to keep it as close to natural as possible.