The art of landscape architecture, its development and its application to modern landscape gardening

Ground should be considered with a view to its original character whether it be the grand, the savage, etc.""The eye should follow down upon the water."'"No straight lines."'"Vistas should look natural, a kind of balance in nature.""Art should never be allowed to set a foot in the province of nature, otherwise than clandestinely and by night."'"Hedges appearing as such are universally bad.They discover art in nature's province.""Art indeed is often requisite to collect and epitomize the beauties of nature, but should never be suffered to put her mark on them.""In gardening it is no small matter to enforce either grandeur or beauty by surprise,-for instance, by abrupt transition from their contraries,-but to lay stress on surprise only, for example on the surprise occasioned by a ha-ha (or ditch), without including any nobler purpose is a symptom of bad taste and a violent fondness for mere concetto."'Another authority writes that Shenstone allowed the About the same time we find a part of the Versailles gardens taking on the new form under the name of Petit Trianon.Of this work Arthur Young writes:"To Trianon to view the Queen's Jardin Anglais.I had a letter from Mons.Richard which procured are made between the park [Prospect Park] and certain foreign pleasure grounds, both for the lack of opportunity for enjoying the sight of a large gay assemblage, and its entire want of stateliness and artistic grandeur.In these comparisons and in the demands which they suggest there are important considerations which are generally overlooked.