H. W. S. Cleveland (1814-1900) first explored his "organic" design
approach in 1855 at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts,
where he and Robert Morris Copeland developed a landscape aesthetic
based chiefly on the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Landscape
Architecture, as Applied to the Wants of the West (1873) is especially
significant as the first attempt to define a comprehensive scope for the
new profession of landscape architecture in its formative period.