Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.

Marie-Luise Gothein

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In the religion of the Medes and Persians the cult of trees plays an important part, and with them, as with Assyrians, the symbol of eternal life was a tree with a stream at its roots. Another object of veneration was the sacred miracle tree, which within itself contained the seeds of all.

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To Nature the dweller in the Nile valley linked all that was dear to him: his happiest fetes, poetry, and love - all were bound up with the garden and its products, especially flowers. Few Oriental nations can think of a festival without flowers, but nowhere are they so completely a part of human life, and so essential, as in [Ancient] Egypt.

Marie-Luise Gothein

nature flower life

For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.

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garden taken death

Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the

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christian time life

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and ch... by Marie-Luise Gothein

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.

Marie-Luise Gothein

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