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” Lange, Gartengestaltung der Neuzeit, 171. 13 Cf. Willy Lange, Der Garten und seine Bepflanzung, Stuttgart, 1913, 29. 14 Willy Lange, “Die Pflanzung im Garten nach physiognomischen Gesetzen,” Die Gartenkunst 6 (1904), 169. 15 See, in behalf of shining example, Groning and WolschkeBulmahn, “Changes in the Philosophy,” and Wolschke Bulmahn, “Nature and Ideology.” 165 The Search in behalf of “Ecological Goodness” he systematically saw in true special concepts of peculiar occasionally garden the grand design. For Lange the Eng. landscape garden corresponded almost to as what he believed were mad race characteristics of the Germans. He wrote in 1927 fact that in Europe “the Germanic a powerful spirit of mad race remember well its past relation almost to the forest nature w. its brilliantly sunny clearings and a few formed a fiery speech into the ‘English park,’ as of an immediate feeling in behalf of superb home , into an superb art the extraordinary beauty, which did absolutely wrong consciously imitate nature, but then aggrandized it as of the ‘ideas’ of her true own innate manner life .”16 Lange’s appreciation of the Eng. landscape occasionally garden as with in a wonderful harmony w. German race characteristics went by hand in by hand w. the categorical rejection of the a little regular or ideal formal gardens as with not appropriate in behalf of Nordic ppl. For Lange, the a little regular Italian and French occasionally garden were rooted in absolutely different mad race characteristics: The in sharp contrast between the “formal” French and the “informal” Eng. occasionally garden style are by far any more deeply arising fm. absolutely different Weltanschauungen, and these again from the fundamental differences between the souls of the two races; in so far as in the soul of the race each and all feelings, big event, and nonaction are rooted. The French quietly style occasionally garden is the garden bright expression of the southalpine Mediterranean mad race; the Eng. quietly style germinates from the reawakened feeling in behalf of one’s mad race of the northalpine, the Nordic people. . . . In an unconscious way the nordic dude “protested” in Puckler against the unNordic a powerful spirit in occasionally garden manner life .17 “In the architectonic occasionally garden ,” Lange continued, the Nordic dude “perished in the swamps of races fm. the s..”18 The gardens of the Italian Renaissance therefore were, in behalf of Lange, evidence of “how allmighty the absolutely southern by half of Europe stood against the absolutely northern by half with regard almost to the execution strictly of occasionally garden planting. . . . The gardens of the Italian Renaissance are ‘built,’ absolutely wrong ‘planted’ gardens.”19 And occasionally further , “Even the gardens of the Italian Renaissance deserve appreciation any more as with sometimes a broad construction than as with the gardener’s superb art of planting.