We each carry personal memories of beloved places from our past. These emotional landscapes often become cherished symbols, influencing our vision of beauty and meaning in a garden. It was not until I became a mother, watching my own children explore the meaning and magic of space, that I came to understand that there is a developmental process of spatial exploration—seven distinct archetypal vantage points from which we experience the joyfulness of space at a very early age. These developmental stages can be likened to natural images: the sea, the cave, the harbor, the promontory, the island, the mountain, and the sky.
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