The degree of good that one gets from the ever present landscape depends on two things.

First, the keenness of one's perception of the beautiful qualities in landscape. Second, the physical qualities of the landscape itself, qualities which depend largely upon the doings of man, as woodsman, farmer, gardener, builder, or controller of the materials and forces of nature. For the appearance of the land and the objects upon it generally result from the control which man himself exerts over the materials and forces of natural stone which he shapes. There is not one of us who is not responsible in some degree for making or marring the landscape of our world. Whenever this human control over the land and the objects upon it is influenced by desire to make the resulting landscape more enjoyable than it would otherwise be, an element of artistry enters, which often attains the quality of a Fine Art.