The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



spirit of mystery is one of the most truly charac- 

 teristic qualities of the natural world. It is a great 

 and highly spiritual quality wholly opposed to the 

 scientific passion for complete and classified knowl- 

 edge. Our generation has followed this passion for 

 science to such lengths, has been so wrought with 

 the ideal of discovering and publishing everything, 

 that this spirit of mystery comes as a greatly needed 

 corrective. We shall never understand the land- 

 scape until we understand that we can never un- 

 derstand it all. 



In the story of the creation it is related that the 

 spirit of God breathed upon the waters. The spirit 

 of God still breathes there. Most men find God 

 speaking to them most directly from the clouds, 

 from the rain, from the sea or from the hills. One 

 of them said: 



"I will look up to the hills, whence cometh my help: 

 "My help cometh from the Lord, who made Heaven 

 and Earth." 



Yes, quite plainly, of all the spirits moving in 

 the landscape the greatest is the Father of all spir- 

 its, the one known to the theologians as the Holy 



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