Marie-Luise Gothein quotes
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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.”
-- Marie-Luise GotheinSource : Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.18, Gardenvisit.com
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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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“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 GotheinSource : 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.”
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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 GotheinSource : 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
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“What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”
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“Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.”
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“The real struggle for us is for the citizen to cease to be the property of the state.”
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“Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.”
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“True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.”
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