Tree of Life Labyrinth at Stoneview Nature Center
Culver City, California, United States
At Stoneview Nature Center in Culver City, the Tree of Life labyrinth runs through native plantings on a hillside site Baldwin Hills neighbors fought to keep from development. The path's name is the design's own; the walk moves through the garden's seasonal cycle.
At Stoneview Nature Center in Culver City, the Tree of Life labyrinth runs through native plantings on a hillside site Baldwin Hills neighbors fought to keep from development. The path's name is the design's own; the walk moves through the garden's seasonal cycle. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as Classical 7-circuit with a Tree of Life surrounding it; installed April 8, 2017.
Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.
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