surrounding-scene

Updated: June 28, 2025

I love the country, yet whenever I see a picturesque situation chosen on which to erect a dwelling I am always afraid of the improvements. It requires uncommon taste to form a whole, and to introduce accommodations and ornaments analogous with the surrounding-scene. It visited, near Gothenburg, a house with improved land about it, with which I was particularly delighted.

Mary Wollstonecraft - Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark