The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



thought. Its wide and infinite reaches, its constant 

 motion, its vivid expression of power, its versatile 

 changes, its human and super-human moods, its 

 delicate colorings, even its salty smell, make it so 

 vivid that no human consciousness could possibly 

 escape it. A mere glimpse of the sea must pro- 

 foundly impress the most unsympathetic stranger. 

 How deeply it affects those who live with it all 

 history can tell. 



Likewise the mountains in their sublime alti- 

 tudes are capable of moving men's hearts and 

 minds to the utmost. They have a character of 

 their own as much as the sea. Whole nations have 

 lived with the mountains and drawn their character 

 from them. 



To the man from a different environment the 

 plains seem monotonous. Their wide expanse, 

 their level horizon, do not make an instant impres- 

 sion. Yet the men and women who live there know 

 that this wide unbroken circle of horizon which the 

 eye can barely reach, speaks to the mind always of 

 infinity. Nothing could be wider and nothing could 

 appeal more to the imagination. Nothing could 



