"The morning and evening lights at Canberra are wonderful. The shadow of the clouds and the mists as they cross the mountains are very beautiful indeed. It is a grand site for a city".
"I … entered this Australian event to be my first and last competition, solely because I have for many years greatly admired the bold radical steps in politics and economics which your country [Australia] has dared to take, and which must for a long time, set ideals for Europe and America ahead of their possibility of accomplishment".
The entire scheme was conceived in terms of a great theatre:
"Taken together, the site may be considered as an irregular amphitheatre – with Ainslie at the north-east in the rear, flanked on either side by Black Mountain and Pleasant Hill, all forming the top galleries; with slopes to the water and auditorium; with the waterway and flood basin, the arena; with the southern slopes, the terraced stage and setting of monumental Government structures, sharply defined, rising tier on tier to the culminating hill of the Capitol; and with the Mugga Mugga, Red Hill and the blue distant mountain ranges, sun reflecting, forming the back sense of the theatrical whole".
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