https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/drumlanrig-palace-garden-in-west-scotland/ Gardenvisit.com Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:01:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/drumlanrig-palace-garden-in-west-scotland/#comment-142 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 06:01:17 +0000 http://www.gardenvisit.com/blog/?p=223#comment-142 “By creating a distinction between landscape gardens and building forms derived from tradition or historic precedent and those based on scientific principles and methodical practices, Loudon affirmed Immanuel Kant’s realization that human understanding was self-reflexive. In other words, we do not have direct access to gardens or buildings such as glasshouses as things in themselves, but only as objects of reflection.”
[The Vital Landscape – Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth Century Britain p79.]

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