SPYROS GERAVELIS LANDSCAPE DESIGN

We live isolated in a man-made microcosm, disconnected from nature (the universe), out of insecurity and fear, and our addiction to comfort, with all the problems this causes to us and our surroundings. 

I consider the garden as a median zone that partakes both of man, by virtue of its being designed, and of nature, by virtue of its elements. 

A garden is nature “domesticated” and “distilled”, a safe place for the spirit to rediscover the lost intimacy with nature.

The garden is a gate. 

“Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods or a bath in the sea.

They shake off the fetters and allow nature to touch them. It can be done within or without.

Walking in the woods or laying on the grass, taking a bath in the sea are from the outside entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again.”

 Carl Jung, Dream Analysis; Notes on a Lecture given 1928-1930.