Art Out-of-Doors 
People of this kind, I say, do not care 
about Nature ; at most they care for those 
conspicuous natural effects which they call 
scenery. Scenery is not the whole of natural 
beauty; it is only one manifestation of it; 
and a person who delights in a magnificent 
view but finds all flat regions hopelessly tire- 
some, or who feels the grandeur of a rocky 
coast but not the loveliness of a green-fringed, 
quiet shore, is in a rudimentary stage of 
development. His attitude is like that of one 
who should profess to love flowers but, while 
admiring a rose, should despise a forget-me- 
not. The true lover of Nature is he who 
gives interested attention to all natural effects 
and forms, and finds much beauty where the 
average eye finds none. 
Of course there are grades and degrees of 
natural beauty, and for each the true lover 
will have a corresponding degree of ad- 
miration. He will not call a Belgian plain 
as beautiful as the valley of the Rhone, or 
declare that a nettle has the charm of a 
branch of apple-blossoms. But there are few 
plants which have no beauty of any kind ; 
and there are few earthly spots, where man’s 
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