62 GARDEN DESIGN 



No Line in Nature ! 



Now as a matter of fact in Nature — that is, in 

 the visible phenomena of the earth's surface — 

 there are no lines at all ; " a line " is simply an 

 abstraction which conveniently expresses the 

 direction of a succession of objects which may 

 be either straight or curved. " Nature " has 

 nothing to do with either straight lines or curved ; 

 it is simply begging the question to lay it down 

 as an axiom that curved lines are more " natural " 

 than straight. 



Then men must never again talk of 

 the " lines " of a ship ! Perhaps Mr. 

 Blomfield would accept a plumb line ? 

 Y^One can hardly leave London an hour 

 before a person who looks at the land- 

 scape may see the lines or boundaries 

 between one mass and another. Who 

 could stand amongst downs or an alpine 



