ck colony ofrooks and daws who are heard over head, cawing, as it were, in anotherregion, have quite settled down to their nights repose—only think ofthis, and then conceive the atrocity of that taste which could set thehatchet-men to work against the giant stems of those trees which ageshave been… … CHAPTER XL It is in the arrangement and management of trees that the great art ofimprovement consists; earth is too cumbrous and lumpish for man tocontend much with, and, when worked upon, its effects are flat anddead, like its nature. But trees, detaching themselves at once fromthe surface, and…
Landscape gardening · Aesthetics
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