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"...Pückler stammered enthusiastic words of greeting to the great man. Interruption by an ungraciously growled «Hm... Hm...» increased his nervousness. After a while... he felt entirely at ease. He began to explain his artistic aspirations... he spoke of his hand's failure ever to keep pace with his fantasy, he told how, discouraged, he had thrown away his sketchbooks and his crayons. Later, in the art galleries, he had seen the idealized landscapes of Claude Lorrain... On canvas only, he saw perfect Nature. And what they had done on canvas, he dreamed of doing in reality..."
"During the Prince's presentation of his dilemma and for what he sought counsel, Goethe paced back and forth in the garden,... Pückler wiped his forehead with a handkerchief. Goethe sat down without a word. The silence seemed endless. The gentle old man stared at him with his penetrating, youthful eyes and spoke at last... «Continue in this direction. You seem to be gifted for it. Nature is the most satisfying, though the most impenetrable study, because it makes happy the man who wants to be happy.» "
Felix Gross, "Grand Seigneur: The Life and Loves of Prince Hermann Pueckler-Muskau (1785-1871)"
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Landscape Architecture