Water is one of the Five Elements, others being Metal, Wood, Fire and Earth.

A Garden without water is a blind garden.
Water takes the shape of its container.
A regular shaped pool is mechanical and strangles the water it contains.

Water: The generator of life, the mirage of reality, the eye of the garden.

MOBOT Library book on Japanese Gardens (?)

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Comment by Susan Mertz on August 23, 2009 at 11:16am
Buck,
While passing through Wichita last week, we stopped at the Plains Indian monument. Here you are blogging about the elements of a Japanese Garden and I'm taking a photo of the Plains Indians' Circle of Life:

Susan

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