{"id":3738,"date":"2010-01-30T06:40:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T06:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2010-01-30T06:40:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T06:40:28","slug":"the-sublime-in-garden-and-landscape-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/the-sublime-in-garden-and-landscape-design\/","title":{"rendered":"The sublime &#8211; in garden and landscape design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/42825476_d372a14a0b_o1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/42825476_d372a14a0b_o1.jpg\" alt=\"Sublime and beautiful in garden and landscape design\" title=\"Sublime and beautiful in garden and landscape design\" width=\"775\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/42825476_d372a14a0b_o1.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/42825476_d372a14a0b_o1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/42825476_d372a14a0b_o1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/42825476_d372a14a0b_o1-624x415.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sublime is a neglected quality in garden and landscape design. <a href=\"\/biography\/edmund_burke\">Edmund Burke<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0associated the sublime with terror, astonishment, admiration, wonder, and respect &#8221; hardly any thing can strike the mind with its greatness, which does not make some sort of approach towards infinity; which nothing can do whilst we are able to perceive its bounds; but to see an object distinctly, and to perceive its bounds, is one and the same thing. A clear idea is therefore another name for a little idea.&#8221;  In today&#8217;s terms, the view is also beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>I have visited many designed landscapes and gardens without seeing anything as sublime as this photograph &#8211; of fog and sagebush in the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/geeosh\/\">Josh<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sublime is a neglected quality in garden and landscape design. Edmund Burke\u00a0\u00a0associated the sublime with terror, astonishment, admiration, wonder, and respect &#8221; hardly any thing can strike the mind with its greatness, which does not make some sort of approach towards infinity; which nothing can do whilst we are able to perceive its bounds; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}