Gardens of the Gods
Subtitle: Myth, Magic and Meaning in Horticulture
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: December 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781860647406
Subjects: Garden design & planning; Landscape art & architecture; Magic & alchemy; Mind, Body, Spirit; Myths & mythology; Landscape; Gardening / Horticulture; Architecture; Garden Design; Life Sciences - Horticulture; Nature / General; Design; Gardens; Jardins; Symbolic aspects
First sentence: A verandah in Kyoto overlooking an expanse of white sand, its carefully raked parallel lines broken only by a few rocks; the mysterious recesses of a Chinese garden glimpsed through a circular opening in a high wall; the dried-up fountains and watercourses of a once sumptuous Mughal garden in India; a flight of terraces in Tuscany peopled by satyrs, dwarves, monkeys and gods; the surrealistic rock sculptures of Bomarzo; the throng of deities around the Fountain of Apollo at Versailles; a grotto in England with a nymph sleeping by murmuring waters; a Scottish hillside with the golden head of a Greek god half hidden in the shrubbery - these places, disparate geographically and culturally, are linked together.