 ... suggestions of the pruning-knife as if man's wishes were their own whims. Liliputian maples, Tom Thumb trees, a foot high and thirty years old, with all the gnarls and knots and knuckles of their fellows of the forest, grow there in his parterres,...  The Soul of the Far East - Page 129by Percival Lowell - 1888 - 226 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American essays - 1887 - 886 pages
...fellows of the forest, grow there in his parterres, their native vitality not a whit diminished. To enter a Japanese garden is like wandering of a sudden into...diminutive rivers flow gracefully under tiny trees, past mole -hill mountains, till they fall at last into little artificial lakes, almost smothered for the... | |
 | American essays - 1887 - 940 pages
...fellows of the forest, grow there in his parterres, their native vitality not a whit diminished. To enter a Japanese garden is like wandering of a sudden into...where all but the observer himself is transformed iuto a fantastic miniature of the reality. In that quaint fairyland diminutive rivers flow gracefully... | |
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