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Hanbury Botanical Gardens: when nature becomes romantic beauty

The Quakers believe that a garden should reflect a divine order in which science, beauty and religion interact. I find that this is still evident today, and credit is due to the University for not having attempted to turn it into a park or to use it as a money-making scheme, but rather for having left it as close to nature as possible, so that it retains a spirit of tranquillity and timelessness.