Marie-Luise Gothein Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens. — Marie-Luise Gothein