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The author is attempting to follow the influence of various ideologies on the way nature, gardens and landscape are perceived. She discusses the 17th century, and the relationship of a geometrical garden to French absolutism (Versailles), the influence of the British liberal thought on the idea of a casual garden (J. Addison and the Whigs Party), dependence between the idea of freedom and the way the role of nature was understood in the times of the French Revolution (J.J. Rousseau), The Cult Of Nature (J.W. Goethe, A. Humboldt) and nationalistic and racist motifs in German nature (W.H. Rhiel and the wildlife conservation movement), in the gardens (W.P. Tuckermann, W. Lange) and in the landscape (Bismarck’s monuments and towers) in the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. The author refers to the connection between eugenics and the idea of garden city and the influence of the German neo-religious movements on the landscape (cemeteries in Seelefeld and Hilligenloh, The Sacred Grove of Saxons Sachsenhein).