THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



subjugation of the landscape in America, 

 and likely to be more; but the great reaches 

 of the American lakes and mountains must 

 stand eternally above the encroachments of 

 man. They will forever express, more per- 

 fectly than other landscapes, the gigantic 

 forces of the creation. 



Again, the American landscape is 

 diverse. There are all kinds of landscape 

 on our continent. There are big, threaten- 

 ing mountains, and quiet, peaceful little 

 ones; there are broad inland seas; there 

 are vast fertile plains ; there are noble rivers 

 and gurgling, gossiping brooks; there are 

 pine forests and palmetto groves. Swit- 

 zerland has one sort of scenery; Holland 

 has another; England, still another: 

 America has all kinds. 



But more than diversity, the American 

 landscape has versatility. We complain 

 sometimes of our changeable weather and 

 our extremes of climate, but these extremes 

 are responsible, in part, for the kaleidoscopic 

 transformations of our fields and hills. In 

 a great German text-book of botany I saw 

 printed with infinite pains a sketch of 

 autumn colors on Lake Ontario. No other 

 landscape in the world can furnish autumn 



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