russell page--bedside gardening

[modulor fish]

''much of chinese gardening would seem to have been within walls this led in a way that europe has never known, to the invention and construction of fantastic artificial landscapes within formal enclosures. chinese gardeners made little mountains of fretted stones dragged from the bottom of an indo-chinese bay. they worked on each crevice and hole and carved them into even wilder shapes; they set them in strangely shaped pools canopied by the rounded glaucous leaves of lotus. these sheltered shoals of gold-fish bred specially for their protruding eyes and for their waving silken fins of silver and orange, gold and black.''

russell page, the education of a gardener.