Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/263/en

The ancient Greek did not experience nature as something external, severed from himself; rather, mountain and valley, hill and plain, spring and watercourse, lapped round by water-vapours, by air and warmth and flooding light — all this he experienced as permeated by the same spirituality he found living and weaving within himself and impulsing him soul-spiritually. This sensing, permeated by the awakening intellectual soul or mind soul, constituted his artistic being; out of this sensing the Greek shaped the landscape: the shepherd the open mountain heights with their herds; the vine- and fruit-grower the terracing of the steep slopes; the farmer cultivated the plains with grain; and close by the settlements a garden landscape flourished. Throughout the entire Greco-Latin cultural space, the organism in natural growth, grown out of primordial times, transformed itself — preserving its respective type — into small-scale, articulated orchard and garden landscapes, a mirror, as it were, of the intellectual soul or mind soul in the process of forming itself.