| Journal Call no. | AP8.W56 |
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| Author | Reeve, Philip. |
| Article Title | The world in a hectare : the ideal is not to control nature, but to recreate it / Philip Reeve. |
| Is Part Of | Window ; v.5, no.10, 15 Mar 1996, p.38-39, illus. |
| Abstract | Western gardening is usually an orderly affair with its carefully manicured hedges, perfectly mowed lawns and neat rows of colourful flower beds. Gardens are altogether more wild and imaginative in China, seeking not so much to order nature as to imitate it. Here rocks resemble mountains, ponds represent lakes or even oceans, and a cluster of bamboo an entire forest. A traditional Chinese garden is a microcosm. A whole philosophy, one that is 2,500 years old, has gone into its creation. |