"Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening" 1803

"The man of science and of taste will.... discover the beauties in a tree which the others would condemn for its decay; he will rejoice when he finds two trees whose stems have grown so near each other that their branches have become interwoven....Sometimes he will discover an aged thorn or maple at the foot of a venerable oak; these he will respect, not only for their antiquity; being perhaps coeval with the father of the forest, but knowing that the importance of the oak is comparatively increased by the neighbouring situation of these subordinate subjects..."


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