FROM PREHISTORY TO THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Since creation, the earth's surface continually worked its way, by trial and error, towards the condition of climate and racial groupings that existed at the beginning of recorded history. The length of time it took to do so is beyond comprehension: if the evolution of the world since creation corresponded in time to one year, then civilised man would have been upon it for only one minute.
From the chapter:
The Central Civilisations: Islam, Central Asia
Isfahan, Iran
[JS: stunning to have visited this beautiful country now so repressed]
From The Western Expansion of Islam:
Spain, The Generalife in Granada
From The Western Civilisations:
from Egypt to the Renaissance:
Delos
Italy: The Rennaissance:
Villa Lante
France: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries:
Chantilly
Western Classicism:
Caserta
The Evolution of Modern
Landscape in the Eighteenth Century:
Bridge of the Jade Belt,
Bridge of the Seventeen Arches
The English School:
Stowe
The Americas:
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Extracts from The Landscape of Man
by Geoffrey and Susan Jellicoe,
published by Thames & Hudson [1975]
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