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a place so perfect it only exists in past tense or future promises.
means A place or state of perfect happiness, beauty, and peace — often imagined as heaven or an ideal earthly garden.
from From Greek 'paradeisos,' an enclosed park or pleasure-garden — but the Greeks borrowed it from Old Persian 'pairidaeza,' literally 'walled around' (pairi-, 'around,' + daeza, 'wall'). Persian kings built lush, walled hunting parks, and the word for those royal gardens traveled into Greek, then into the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures, where it came to name the Garden of Eden. So the word for heaven began as a fence.
- word origin
- From Persian for a walled garden or park.
- map myth
- Medieval maps placed Eden in the actual east.
- island trap
- Most tropical paradises rely on imported food and water.
- lost theme
- Milton needed 10,000 lines to lose it.
- hot reality
- Death Valley once hit 134 Fahrenheit in the shade.
garden of eden — biblical paradise in genesis, described as humanity's first home before expulsion
bali indonesia — popular tourist destination marketed as paradise, draws ~6 million visitors annually
maldives — island nation in indian ocean, frequently called paradise in travel media for beaches and reefs