Marie-Luise Gothein Quotes

• 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

  Beauty, Struggle, Design

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.18, Gardenvisit.com

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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.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Life, Play, Roots

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.21, Gardenvisit.com

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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

  Life, Nature, Flower

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

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Death, Taken, Garden

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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.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Vida, Cristiano, Tiempo

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.29, Gardenvisit.com

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

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Garden, Ornaments, Vineyards

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