The process of buying and improving the land piecemeal was criticized because each improvement raised the value of the existing land that still needed to be purchased.
He and John Jr. spent their days planning how to improve the land.
"Improving the land should be put on a war footing because food security is a real issue in the face of climate change".
But they would not agree, and he improved the land with three private houses, the 23rd, 24th and 25th on the Cook block: 1020 Madison Avenue, 20 East 79th Street and one on the corner, since demolished.
Those assumptions are a commitment to protecting and improving the land, to local food, and to the role that agriculture must play in strengthening the cultural and social texture of rural America.
A towering figure in the Zionist world, a true, loyal friend to Hadassah and its leaders, he was the driving force behind decades of JNF/Hadassah projects to improve the land of Israel.
"In recognition of this, our embassy in Bogotá runs several human rights projects to help improve the land registry process, increase access to protection measures, and raise awareness of the UN guiding principles on business and human rights".
In 1959 he and his wife, Betty Lou, bought a 55-acre farm in New Hampshire, eventually rebuilding the farmhouse and expanding to 650 acres, improving the land and maintaining the tree farm.
Some 100m hectares of America's forests went in the 19th century, in an arboreal slaughter similarly reinforced by a belief in the godliness of thus "improving" the land.
