Excerpt from Home Grounds, Their Planning and Planting
As A Forest is more than trees and as a city is more than people, so is a home more than buildings. It is more than a place in which to eat and sleep and to find shelter and protection for the goods that we accumulate. It is also a place of satisfactions, with such arrangements and conveniences and attractions as will contribute to comfort and appeal to our best feelings. The conveniences provided, we then add books, pictures, music, and gather to ourselves the objects we like. The home comprises the grounds as well as the house; and the grounds also have their essential conveniences and attractions. Plant-forms and colors are as much a part of a good home as are the books and many interior utilities and adornments.
There is a beauty in an object, and there is another beauty of objects set together in harmony. In some houses the arrangement is always disturbing; in others it is satisfying.
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