The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



sarily and positively, a deep love of that particular 

 landscape in his heart. Let him be exiled for a 

 few years in Texas or France or Chicago and 

 then let him revisit the Green Mountains. His 

 heart will leap up like a mother to her child. His 

 emotions will be stirred to their profoundest depths. 

 There is hardly a human experience anywhere of 

 greater reach or power. 



This particular experience, while universal and 

 known of all men, is somewhat provincial. Culti- 

 vated men learn to love other landscapes than those 

 to which they were born. A part of the value of 

 landscape lies in its universality. The landscape is 

 everywhere. The lover of books cannot always 

 live in a library; the lover of music cannot find 

 anywhere a perpetual concert; the lover of paint- 

 ing cannot shut himself up in an art gallery; but 

 the lover of the landscape has his joy always with 

 him. Even the hater of the landscape, if there 

 could be such a man, could not escape from it. 



Now since art is after all primarily the love 

 and en j oyment of the beautiful, and since the land- 

 scape is physically present to all people, and since 



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