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:

    “When your fathers fixed the place of GOD,
    And settled all the inconvenient saints,
    Apostles, martyrs, in a kind of Whipsnade,
    Then they could set about imperial expansion
    Accompanied by industrial development.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Have We not made the earth as a cradle
    and the mountains as pegs?
    And We created you in pairs,
    and We appointed your sleep for a rest;
    and We appointed night for a garment,
    and We appointed day for a livelihood.
    And We have built above you seven strong ones,
    and We appointed a blazing lamp
    and have sent down out of the rain-clouds water cascading
    that We may bring forth thereby grain and plants,
    and gardens luxuriant.”
    —Qur’an, “The Tiding” 78:6-16, ed. Arthur J. Arberry (1955)