The Natural Style in Landscape Gardening 



Spirit. But of his progeny there are legions more. 

 Not only the great spirit of life, the spirit of power, 

 the spirit of beauty and the spirit of joy, but all 

 the lesser spirits — the prairie spirit, the spirit of 

 the pine woods, the spirit of the palmetto swamps, 

 and all the rest — to every landscape its own spirit. 

 It is very, very easy to conclude that the Indians 

 were right when they thought of the world as peo- 

 pled with spirits, assigning to every tree and shrub 

 its living soul. 



And so we conclude that this physical world 

 which we see (and which the cow sees) is only a 

 part of the landscape. Within those physical 

 forms and without them and beyond them there are 

 corresponding spiritual parts which form a spirit- 

 ual landscape just as real and even more closely 

 related to our half -human, half -divine souls. 



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