Was it that the elite poets, scholars, thinkers and dilettantes of eighteenth-century English society, in vigorously rejecting the formal garden and proposing that there had been "nothing like" the natural garden, really had no idea in their heads about the accumulated legacy of human civilization, or were the labors between China and the West that had taken place over the centuries just in vain?
十八世紀英國的文人雅士，在創造出「前所未有」的自然園林時，腦袋裡不裝一點人類文明累積的結晶，還真辜負了幾世紀來中西之間旅途勞頓的慇勤使者。