Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 As the Twig Is Bent -- 2 On Buckland and Drawing: First Impressions and Later Observations -- 3 Village and Farm: Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire -- An Agricultural Landscape -- Bronze and Iron Age Developments -- Medieval Longbridge and the Emergence of Wessex -- Norman Prosperity -- Architecture in the Landscape: The Great Rebuilding -- Climate, Ecology, and the Landscape -- Longbridge at the Crossroads -- 4 Et in Arcadia Ego: Landscape Gardens and Parks -- Love at First Sight -- Habits of Mind -- Longleat -- Italian Moods, Palladians, and the Landscape -- Stourhead -- Lancelot "Capability" Brown -- The Landscape Movement Spreads -- Pusey House -- Buscot House -- Wardour Castle, Buckland House, and Richard Woods -- In Conclusion: Beauty Past Change -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index.