Pictures vs. words

Recently I discovered an intriguing blog, The Brown Advisor, in this case referring to "the great landscape gardener, or place-maker, Lancelot 'Capability Brown'." I quote this from the blog, quoting Joseph Addison:"'Words, when well chosen, have so great a Force in them, that a Description often gives us more lively Ideas than the Sight of Things themselves. The Reader finds a Scene drawn in stronger Colours, and painted more to the Life in his Imagination, by the help of Words, than by an actual Survey of the Scene which they describe. In this Case the Poet seems to get the better of Nature; he takes, indeed, the Landskip after her, but gives it more vigorous Touches, heightens its Beauty, and so enlivens the whole Piece, that the Images which flow from the Objects themselves appear weak and faint, in Comparison of those that come from the Expressions.'"Think about it. It sounds odd to us, enmeshed as we are in a highly visual age.The photo is of the lake at Blenheim, made by Capability Brown.