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"In
a Japanese Garden" "No effort to create an impossible or pure ideal landscape is made in the Japanese Garden. Its artistic purpose is to copy faithfully the veritable landscape, and to convey the real impression that a real landscape communicates. It is therefore at once a picture and a poem; perhaps even more a poem than a picture. For as nature's scenery, in its varying aspects, affects us with sensations of joy or solemnity, of grimness or of sweetness, of force or of peace, so must the true reflection of it in the labor of the landscape gardener create not merely an impression of beauty, but a mood in the soul." Excerpted
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New Board Elected Members present at the annual meeting in July accepted the slate of officers and board members, as presented by the Nominating Committee. Dr. Strong would like to thank everyone who has volunteered their time and effort over the years and looks forward to working with the new board members as we work to complete the garden. |