...own ground so as to give the neighbor equally pleasing vistas into or across it. It is unchristian to hedge from the sight of others the beauties of...it has been our good fortune to create or secure; and all the walls, high fences, hedge screens and belts of trees and shrubbery which are used for that...

...Scott's most radical departure from old-world practice was to insist upon the individual property owner's responsibility to his neighbors. "It is unchristian,"...nature which it has been our good fortune to create or secure."8 He railed against fences, which he regarded as selfish and undemocratic — one's lawn should...