Ecolo

ECOLO

Location: Herb Garden

This is a Mario Korbel statue of Ecolo, Goddess of Earth, puting on her sandals to protect nature from man’s carelessness. George Booth commissioned the sculpture in 1927. The original name given to the sculpture was Atlanta, the Greek Goddess of the hunt, travel and adventure. Henry Scripps Boothrenamed her Ecolo, a goddess he invented, in 1982.