The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



the billiard rooms, the dances and the movies, he 

 will go to the hills, he will visit the lakes, he will 

 follow the brooks, he will camp on the plains. All 

 this is so simple, so obvious, so easy, that it needs 

 only to be mentioned to be established as a fruitful 

 means of landscape study. 



Of course the student will visit the landscape — 

 no, he will live with it— with an open mind and 

 heart. He will be trying to see what the landscape 

 has to offer, trying to hear what it has to tell. He 

 will look long, quietly, silently, intently at the hori- 

 zon, or at the distant valley, or at the mountains. 

 And most of all he will consciously seek their spirit- 

 ual message. He will know that as a man it is ab- 

 solutely obligatory upon him to see something in 

 that landscape more than the cow sees. Whatever 

 he gets beyond what the cow gets is the spiritual 

 harvest of the landscape. It is the only part which 

 is of any human use. 



In another place I have tried to extend the defi- 

 nition of the landscape to include such items as the 

 sky, and the weather. The man who is thus con- 

 scientiously seeking the spiritual message of the 



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