Quotes by Marie-Luise Gothein

Marie-Luise Gothein

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

Death

Garden

Taken

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.

Life

Play

Roots

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.

Beauty

Design

Struggle

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.

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Life

Nature

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Quotes by Marie-Luise Gothein

Marie-Luise Gothein

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

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.

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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