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For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.
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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.
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Indian monks were the first to choose the garden as the proper setting for their lives, which were devoted to the
contemplation of the divine; but with a prophetic eye we may see that the garden will often be dedicated in a
like manner: at a later time Greek philosophers, and monks in early Christian days, will retire into their
gardens for united, yet silent, contemplation.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Marie-Luise Gothein
Born:
1863
Died:
1931
(aged 68)
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Marie-Luise Gothein was a Prussian scholar, gardener and author.
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