66 Outlook to Nature 



The out-door galleries. 



Is it not strange that all our art galleries are 

 indoors ? We get up at ten o'clock in the 

 morning and call a carriage to drive us to the 

 gallery to see a picture of a sunrise ! We must 

 see a picture of a tree before we are aware that 

 a tree is worth making a picture of. Yet the 

 world out-of-doors is the real source of art and 

 the real gallery ; all our best galleries and best 

 buildings are but adaptations, imitations, and 

 interpretations. 



Collections and galleries by means of which 

 to teach men ? They are trivial compared with 

 what I can show you in yonder fields. Col- 

 lections instruct those who would be instructed ; 

 we need many more of them : but my fields 

 have intrinsic uplift and inspiration. The art 

 gallery and city cannot have real fields, and real 

 forests, and real animals, and real live-stock, and 

 real landscape. 



Some day we shall construct great pictures 

 out-of-doors. We shall assemble the houses, 

 control the architecture, arrange the trees and 

 the forests, direct the roads and fences, display 



