122 HOME BEAUTY 



and Nature will only be when he is in the natural 

 surroundings with which he has been familiar from 

 childhood, and which have affected him in his most 

 impressionable years. 



The Artist will have seen Nature as she mani- 

 fests herself in the teeming life of a tropical forest 

 and the most varied races of men ; in the highest 

 mountains and the widest deserts ; in the glory of 

 sunsets and the calm of stars. But it is in none of 

 these that he will see deepest into the true Heart 

 of Nature and understand her best. It is amid 

 scenery which he has loved since boyhood, in the 

 hearts of his own countrymen in their own country, 

 that he will see deepest into Nature. And deepest 

 of all will he see when from among his country- 

 women he has united himself to the one of his own 

 deliberate choice, and in this union realised in its 

 fulness, strength, and intensity that Creative Love 

 which springs from Nature's very heart, and is the 

 ultimate fount and source of all Natural Beauty. 



We like to go out over all the Earth and see the 

 wonders of it. And we learn to love the great 

 mountains and rich forests and unfenced steppes 

 and veldts and prairies. And we get to love also 

 the various peoples among whom we have to work 

 and travel. But in his heart of hearts each man 

 likes to get back to the scenes of his childhood. 

 The plainsman likes to get back again from the 

 mountains to his level plains where the scene is 

 closer and more intimate. The mountaineer likes 

 to retire again from the plains into the mountains. 

 The dweller on the veldt likes to get out of the 

 forest on to the great open spaces once more. The 



