Landscape: Readings - "Green Dreams: Gardens"

 The way this is written was kind of difficult to understand because of the way the author speaks in these kind of "metaphors" when he is talking about, or describing something.  But otherwise, what I got from this reading was that this author views gardens as a form of art and says that they are very symbolic and have a lot of meaning. Throughout the reading he talks about all different types of gardens like from historical gardens to new gardens and gardens from all over the world. He also describes them all in great detail. 

   As you keep reading the author just keeps on describing all these different places and how gardens differ everywhere. The author does this by emphasizing on what is special about that specific type of garden and what differentiates it from the others. The reading comes to an end by saying that gardens always mean something else and that man always uses one thing to say another. I feel like a saying that would apply here would be "life imitates art" as cheesy as that may sound it is true according to what the author thinks about how the outside is arranged to suit the inside.