Imperial Gardens

Many imperial gardens exist in Asia including:

  • the old name of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, China, also known as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness
  • the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan

Famous quotes containing the words imperial and/or gardens:

    “Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
    —Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.

    The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.

    “Within the memory of many of my townsmen the road near which my house stands resounded with the laugh and gossip of inhabitants, and the woods which border it were notched and dotted here and there with their little gardens and dwellings, though it was then much more shut in by the forest than now.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)