Excerpt from Suggestions on Landscape Gardening

Landscape gardening is a subject in which we are all interested. It is not an abstruse art, shut up between the covers of expensive books. It is not dependent on the caprice of individuals, nor on the fashion of the day. Its laws, like other good laws, are consistent with that every-day mathematics - common sense. It does not follow, however, that these laws are understood by every man of general sound judgment. In fact, there is, perhaps, no subject on which sensible men act so irrationally, as the treatment of their grounds. It is very easy to say that the cause is ignorance. This is, in a sense, the cause of all our imperfections, and mankind advances mainly by augmenting its stock of knowledge. But the kind of ignorance in this case, is not unacquaintance with authors and systems, but misapprehension as to the objects to be pursued. Some of these objects we propose to point out, and we must first notice some of the prevailing misapprehensions.

We will take first the mistake as to the point of view.

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