THE, INFLUENCE OF LANDSCAPE.
“The influence of landscape on character is deep and incalculable,” writes Mr John Drinkwater in the “Austin Magazine.” “Natural grandeur would seem to be inadequately, reflected in the people born to it. Burns came out from the Grampians, but from the uneventful lowlands of Ayrshire. Wordsworth lived among the noblest scenery in England and loved it, hut his poetic life was largely an effort to subdue the majesty of Helvellyn to the intimacies of a cottage and its garden. Where in England are the painters who have been taught -by spectacular Nature as were a few quiet men by their Suffolks and Norfolk levels? It is not a question of beauty; and hedgerow in primrose time or spinney of larch-buds can match the Alps or the Golden Gate in beauty. It is a question of scale and composition! The vaster and the more elaborate these become, the less, it would seem, is the soil of imagination fertilised. The sublimer convulsions of Nature make us marvel, they do not make us prophesy. ’’
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Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1930, Page 2
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