He thinks that to understand the real relationship between the Chinese and the English garden, all you have to do is take a walk around a famous eighteenth-century English garden and discover the inspiration behind the natural garden. Without doubt, it comes from the description of a country garden in the classical Roman writer Pliny, not the vague writing about the Chinese garden in Temple or Addison.
他認為要瞭解中英花園之間的關連，只消到知名的十八世紀英國園林走一遭，就可以發現自然園林的靈感，毫無疑問，是來自古羅馬作家普里尼描述的鄉間別墅，而非天樸、愛地生筆下曖昧的中國園林。