Contradictions on the idea of the picturesque

After reading Gilpin on Tuesday, the differences between his ideas and thoughts about the picturesque and Wordsworth's really stood out to me. While Gilpin was highly critical of any human interference in nature, Wordsworth seemed more relaxed about it. Wordsworth seemed to enjoy small country towns and the company of country people, and he includes descriptions of their houses and churches as part of the things he likes and enjoys about the country. Wordsworth doesn't think that the orchards or other parts of nature which have been organized and placed in rows ruin the landscape. Gilpin describes hedges as being unsightly in his poetry, but Wordsworth says "Once again I see these hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines of sportive wood run wild; these pastoral farms green to the very door." (p143) Wordsworth seems much more forgiving of humanity in his poetry, although he doesn't enjoy the bustle of a hectic city life. Wordsworth also seems much more spiritual and less critical about nature than Gilpin.