THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



to any time or season. God looked on the 

 world and saw that it was good. The most 

 critical of us are obliged to agree with him. 

 The world is beautiful in toto, in all its 

 parts, and in all its phenomena. The 

 weather is good, no matter how often 

 polite conversation may run to the contrary, 

 and every change, from equinox to solstice, 

 offers a new spectacle of delight. 



This occupies us through the first five 

 essays of the book. And then we come to 

 landscape gardening, and for two quite 

 competent reasons. The first reason is 

 that these essays were all conceived from 

 the standpoint of the landscape architect, 

 from which point it is altogether natural 

 and proper to discuss some more practical 

 matters belonging to a highly technicsJ art. 

 The second reason is this: that as success- 

 ful landscape making depends absolutely on 

 a well-attuned love of natural scenery, so 

 the artificial landscape, when sjnnpathet- 

 ically designed, adds new beauties to 

 Nature's painting. It is "the art which 

 doth mend nature." It clarifies and epi- 

 tomizes the pictures which we see some- 

 times dubiously and imperfectly rendered 

 in field and wood and mountain chain. So 



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