Lancelot Brown's style of garden design

Nature: Brown's model.-Nature is alike the model to the poet, the painter, and the gardener, who all profess to be her imitators: but how few have genius or taste to avoid becoming mannerists! Brown copied Nature, his illiterate followers copied him; and, in such hands, without intending to injure his fame, or to depart from his principles, the fashion of English gardening was in danger of becoming more tiresome, insipid, and unnatural, than the worst style of Italian or Dutch examples.