THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE 



love the Adirondacks and the Green Moun- 

 tains. If that poet who made such a de- 

 lightful book about Little Rivers had my 

 notions of the world, he would make a 

 better book about Little Mountains. There 

 are the Catskills in New York, and the 

 Wichitas in Oklahoma, and the Bear Paw 

 Mountains in Montana. These little moun- 

 tains are particularly good because men 

 can live with them. There are pastures and 

 hay fields and gardens of potatoes almost 

 to their summits. Here and there one sees 

 a zigzagging road and a farmhouse. Men 

 and women live there, and the landscape 

 grows into their lives. 



The great geographic regions of the 

 continent have their characteristic land- 

 scape tone. There is the New England 

 landscape, which is of its own sort, best 

 described by naming it. The stretches of 

 flat coast plain scattered with long-leaf 

 pine make another kind of landscape in the 

 Carolinas, The Great Lakes have their 

 proper beauties and the plains theirs, and 

 the mountains beyond another character. 

 Every one is good in its place. 



Yet these are only general aspects. 

 The landscape grows better and better as 



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