Landscape Architecture

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This paper answers several questions about gardens and landscape architecture, beginning with the mythology of the Garden of Eden, which is depicted as nature and human life in an unsullied form, not yet marked by sin and with the different species living in complete harmony. According to this paper, it is harmony that is the hallmark of the garden at this stage, and the garden in Western culture is often seen as a locale to which the individual can return to capture some of that sense of a connection to the natural world and a link to God.

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"The Garden of Eden is depicted as nature and human life in an unsullied form, not yet marked by sin and with the different species living in complete harmony. Indeed, it is harmony that is the hallmark of the garden at this stage, and the garden in Western culture is often seen as a locale to which the individual can return to capture some of that sense of a connection to the natural world and a link to God. In Christian mythology, Sin is the daughter of Satan, but she will also bear him a son, Death."

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