a dialogue between nature and architecture. mountains forests rivers with what majesty do we there right above the storms how sublime to look down into the workshop of nature to see the glorious sun when rising as if out of a distant water and giving life to all night chat. with around five thousand acres of land jefferson had a very considerable workshop of nature. but even a big landowner can't live on the sublime view of the landscape the workshop of nature has to return to yield as both landscape architect and from a jefferson again combined aesthetics and utility the greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture he himself toiled passionately to