Landscape: Readings, "Green Dreams: Gardens"

I've always found gardens to be beautiful. That's what they were made to be; beautiful, looked at, and appreciated. Gardens can simply be small replicas of what we go out to see in the world. In the article they spoke about how different it was for a garden to be open and free and another thing entirely to be closed off to the world. A small piece of Eden or sometimes a confined space filled with worry. I know some people have fears of closed spaces but when the article spoke about the Villa Medici and how it made them feel like they were surrounded bulky poisonous things I couldn't help but laugh. It's amazing how we can perceive things simply through space.

Sometimes admiring and being in the garden for  people wasn't enough, they would stare and try to absorb all that they could but sometimes they needed someone else to help them remember. Painters tried to mimic colors, shapes, and lines to give people a sense of them being there. So while some places had the best gardens, others had the best paintings of them. My favorite things  that I wish I could see was the one they mentioned called Bernini's Four Rivers. They way they spoke about the "rocks" was lovely. I could see the sculptures in my head, their shapes being flamelike but sometimes soft like fabric?! I want to be a part of that!.