Drummond's friend the botanist, John Hutton Balfour, regarded his enthusiasm for geology and botany as specifically anti-Darwinian: 'His evolution was God's Work, and not the mere development of living beings' The picture of Loch Earn, seen from above a garden, with the little figure of the woman marking the middle distance, may have evoked ideas of the human and the divine - the cultivated garden and the awesome wilderness, the peopled plains and the hills watching above.