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と is to list nouns:
メアリーとたけしは学生です。Mary and Takeshi are students.
で is the て form of です, used for linking sentences:
公園はきれいで静かです。The park is clean/beautiful and (it is) quiet.
メアリーは学生で、はるかは会社員です。Mary is a student, and Haruka is an office worker.
The thing is, tne English “and” has no direct equivalent in Japanese. と is for nouns, and indicates either an *exhaustive* list of things (as opposed to や for non-exhaustive lists) or indicates being/doing something *with* someone.
Be wary of that in general – translations do not indicate words are equivalent, they just indicate the English word you’d normally use to express the same thing. That doesn’t mean the reverse is also true – like here, と is often translated as “and” but you can’t really say “and” is usually translated as と because that highly depends on which usage of “and” you’re talking about.
For listing multiple properties of something (i.e. combining adjectives rather than nouns) you use either で (in the case of na-adjectives) or the て form (in the case of i-adjectives), like in your example (note that で and the て form are essentially the same thing). So to answer your last question, no, you can’t use と here.
As for examples, literally any sentence where multiple adjectives modify the same noun will do:
– 彼女は奇麗で健全だ (she’s pretty and intelligent)
– 大きくて怖い動物 (big and scary animals)
– あの人は頼もしくて面白くて優しくて賢くて多才だ (that person is reliable, funny, kind, clever, and versatile)
Agree with what others have said, and wish to add:
There is also a slight difference between clauses joined by て・で forms vs と – I’m not good enough to explain it well, but I’ll just mention it briefly so you can start to look out for good resources on it.
~と… to me seems to have a sequential or causal element to it, where [~] happens first, then […] later, or [~] happens, thus causing […] to happen next.
て・で forms don’t seem to have the above meaning and they often can be used to attach a dependent clause to a main clause (though they certainly also can join two main clauses, or nouns, na-adjectives, i-adjectives etc). Basically, this form seems to be able to do a wider range of meanings, so keep an open mind as you parse sentences with them, I think!
I hope you find a more authoritative source than my muddled ramblings!