The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



life — growing, urgent, irrepressible life. Even the 

 inanimate ocean and the tumbling clouds and the 

 singing brook are so nearly alive that they teU the 

 same story to our Ustening ears. 



Then the world is full of energy — of power. 

 From the tiniest insect boldly winging its course 

 against the wind, to the storm waves of the ocean 

 grinding to powder the rocks on the headland, there 

 is the expression of immeasurable energy. The 

 wide sweeping prairie wind, the crashing tree in 

 the forest, the roaring waterfall, the spouting gey- 

 ser, all impress our souls with the infinite power 

 which moves creation. 



Then there is the spirit of beauty, as universal 

 and almost as irresistible. Everywhere the world 

 is beautiful. If one were to ask for a definition 

 of beauty we could not do better than show him the 

 landscape : that is beauty. Nature is the beauty by 

 which all other beauties are measured. This qual- 

 ity, too, is universal. From the most fragile snow 

 crystal to the highest mountain all is instinct with 

 the spirit of beauty. 



The landscape is nearly always peaceful. There 



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