According to Charles Moore in The
Poetics of Gardens, the layout of paths reflects cultural characteristics.
The path of Islam are straight and
narrow, leading directly into the heart of paradise. Those of Versailles are equally single-minded but climax in the
bedchamber of the Sun King. The
goose-foot patterns of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century French hunting park
tell of the headlong flight of the stag, while English parks may be patterned
on the winding tracks of the devious fox.
Rococo gardens cut passes into the curlicued rhythms of courtly frivolity,
and Japanese gardens have, for centuries, deployed precarious stepping-stoned
with such artful irregularity that the placement of each geta-constrained foot
must become a conscious, exquisitely shaped act.
-- as quoted in Garden Paths:Inspiring Designs and Practical Projects by Gordon Hayward
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