The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



be alive in it. 



But does it not appeal to other than our phj^sical 

 senses? Does it not touch some spiritual sense? 

 As we, civilized human beings, sit there amidst 

 the glory of that June landscape, do we appre- 

 hend nothing but the physical landscape? What 

 do we really see? Only the trees and the grass 

 and the river? Only these? If that is really all 

 we see then the good Jersey cow ruminating under 

 the tree has a very substantial advantage over us. 

 She sees the tree and the grass and the river; and 

 besides that she sees a square meal. She crops the 

 grass, drinks the water, retires to the shade of 

 the tree and ruminates. 



Do we bring back from that fair landscape any- 

 thing which we may ruminate? If we really do suc- 

 ceed in capturing something more than what the 

 cow gets, that harvest must be a spiritual product. 

 It is the spirit of the landscape. 



There may be men and women who get less from 

 the landscape than the cow does. If there are, I 

 am sure they will not admit it. So perhaps we 

 may let the case rest there for the present. In a 



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