" Laying out grounds^ as it is called, may be considered as a liberal 

 art, in some sort like poetry and painting; and its object, like that of all 

 the liberal arts, is, or ought to be, to move the affections under the control 

 of good sense. If this be so when we are merely putting together words 

 or colours, how much more ought the feeling to prevail when we are in 

 the midst of ttie realities of things ; of the beauty and harmony, of the 

 j.oy and happiness of living creatures ; of men and children, of birds 

 and beasts, of hills and streams, and trees and flowers, with the changes 

 of night and day, evening and morning, summer and winter, and all 

 their unwearied actions and energies" WORDSWORTH. 



