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And the next section
I'm going to read

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is called "Other Gardens."

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And as I said, Le Nôtre's
best-known gardens were these

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huge projects that he did in
the Tuilleries, Versailles,

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Vaux-le-Vicomte, parts of
the Luxembourg, et cetera.

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But he also did many, many
other gardens, most of which

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are in the Ile-de-France,
the area of central France

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of which Paris is the center.

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All these gardens still
exist, though many of them

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have wandered largely
from his plans.

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So in this section, I'm
playing with the history

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of these spaces, as well
as the gardening of them.

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So it's kind of how
history has sculpted them,

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and then how the gardener
sculpts them as well.

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"Saint-Germain-en-Laye."

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In 1122, Louis VI le Gros had a
castle built on the Plateau de

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Laye for the view and the wind.

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And people are those little
things way over there in red.

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A gardener's job
is to open space

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and not to deal
with mass, and only

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rarely with color in a
universe of green and sand.

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A garden includes everything
you can see from the garden.

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So Saint-Germain-en-Laye
stretches far beyond Paris.

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When Le Nôtre
replaced the gardens,

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when the superintendent
of water and fountains,

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when François Francine
complained that Le Nôtre showed

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no respect for resources,
enormous poplars and every

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ancient exchange of molecules
is gardening a representational

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art.

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And he who is consumed
by want will fall asleep

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counting to every one there
is one impossible land.

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The endless lawn appears
as a straight line.

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The pain of singular time as
a tree must feel about space.

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