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Writing by richard on Tuesday, 16 of June , 2009 at 6:33 am
Cosmology and values – indeed about the whole order of things as the medieval mind saw it. Similarly, to visit, say, the garden of Versailles is to catch a glimpse of the world order as it was seen by Louis XIV and his court.regarding human potentials In other words, a garden can be a metaphor, used to convey a world view, a mood, a thought or an ideal.vitamins, minerals, herbs for treating manic depression An entire book or several could be written about the garden as a literary or artistic metaphor. We shall of course touch on this aspect of the subject. First, we will learn about real gardens.
What makes gardens such potentially powerful metaphors is the way in which they bring together nature and art. This combination allows for enormous variations in emphasis, depending on how nature is viewed in particular cultures. Gardens are by definition a human creation and not part of nature, so a culture that lives in a purely natural environment cannot understand what a garden is. For some cultures, such as those of ancient China and Japan, a garden is a refinement of nature. The modern city dweller is likely to see gardens as places where a lost natural beauty can be recreated.
Then again, a garden means one thing to a dweller in an arid desert environment and another thing to someone from a damp and verdant region. In the same way, different things found in a garden can vary widely in meaning as well. For instance, woods, for example, are traditionally sacred in northern Europe but grim and perilous places in the south. On the other hand, there are certain motifs that appear to have a universal or widely shared meaning that crosses cultural boundaries – the fountain, with its life-giving water, is one example. Some would see these shared symbols as belonging to the store of images inherited by all of humankind and accessible through the ‘collective unconscious’, as the psychologist C. Jung claimed.|Some would view these shared symbols as the collection of symbols inherited by all humankind and available through the ‘collective unconscious’, as the psychologist C.G. Jung believed.|Some people, such as the great psychologist C.G. Jung, believed that these shared symbols are stored images inherited and accessed by all humankind.}G. Jung believed. Ultimately of course anything in a garden can take on the character of a ‘symbol’ if the observer chooses to see it that way: a bee gathering nectar from a flower, the dance of sunlight filtered through foliage, the pattern of freshly fallen autumn leaves on the ground, a spider’s web hung with dew – and an infinite number of other things. “Reading” a garden isn’t easy, and a garden can’t be treated as though it were just words on a page with only one meaning.
A garden is like a good poem, it gives people lots of things to think about and brings our different feelings from different people. There are, however, enough shared images and symbols either within or across cultures to make possible the existence of a language of gardens – or rather many languages, in fact an almost infinite amount.
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