Art Out-of-Doors 



I came here." And he seemed to think that 

 the panorama of the morning and evening and 

 midnight heavens was as admirable as any 

 terrestrial panorama which could be unrolled. 



Again, in our crude and often maltreated 

 land, grandeur in the distance often means a 

 forlorn raggedness in the foregrounds, and a 

 sensitive eye thinks the foreground of a pict- 

 ure as important as its background. Where 

 forests have ruthlessly been cut away, and 

 where there is not a rich soil to encourage 

 neat and careful methods of cultivation, 

 primeval beauty has largely vanished and 

 the beauty of civihzation has not taken its 

 place. The true lover of Nature will feel 

 this painfully, and all the magnificence of 

 the mountains beyond may not compensate 

 him for the lack of that harmonious repose 

 in general effect which comes when all parts 

 of a picture are in keeping. 



I do not say that the true lover of Nature 

 cares nothing for grand scenery- — only that 

 he does not actually need it. Great things 

 impress him, but sm.all ones content him, and 

 he gathers pleasure from the roadside grass 

 as well as from the giant oak or the sky-line 



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