America’s oldest public university has preserved an exceptional legacy of natural features and ancient trees – components of a rich and proud landscape heritage. Hoerr Schaudt’s plan, entitled ‘The Dignity of Restraint,’ recognizes UNC’s landscape as the overall connective fabric for the campus, and recommends ways to preserve its qualities, many of which remain extant from the university’s 1795 inception. The plan focuses on five distinct sites within the institution’s core, each of which represents a different historic and stylistic era. Our recommendations seek to preserve, rediscover, and reaffirm the historic, scenic, and botanic significance of this singular American landscape.