“To nineteenth-century writers such as Emerson and Hawthorne, the rural landscape was far preferable to that of the squalid city. Creations of nature were preferable to artificial creations of men...Examining the poetry of Wordsworth and Tennyson...is to see a world of picturesque villages and cottages in a bucolic landscape...the painting of the Hudson Valley School similarly present a view of nature that is highly idealized and almost mystical...The romantic garden suburb was a pragmatic American response, insofar as it was an attempt to practically prepackage the rural virtues...Thus, moving one’s family from the crowded, sinful city to the pure and open country was not just a practical decision; it was a moral choice.” (69-70) Nature meets Capitalist Pragmatism

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)