The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



are occasional storms of magnificent fury, but as a 

 rule the arctic wastes and the tropical jungles are 

 both as peaceful as eternity. Those who seek 

 peace wisely always go to the landscape. Physi- 

 cians uniformly prescribe the quiet country and the 

 open landscape for their over-civilized and bedev- 

 iled patients. The worried man who makes an ex- 

 cuse of his trout rod to linger in the solitudes where 

 the shadows lie across the pools knows this land- 

 scape spirit of peace; and the tired woman gazing 

 out of her window to the purple of the distant hills 

 knows. 



In the landscape is not only peace but joy. It 

 is a joy sometimes so Avild and gay as almost to 

 contradict the spirit of peace. The rivers chuckle 

 to themselves as they tumble over obstacles in their 

 way; the flowers burst with joyous bloom; the birds 

 sing with all their might and main, and the trees of 

 the forests clap their hands for joy. It is enough 

 to dry the tears of Niobe. 



Yet even in our moments of deepest vision and 

 highest ecstasy the landscape is not wholly revealed. 

 There is always something beyond. Indeed, this 



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