Labyrinth at Tyler Arboretum
Media, Pennsylvania, United States
At Tyler Arboretum in Media, a 650-acre historic arboretum, a permanent labyrinth sits among the heritage tree collections and meadows. It is walked at arboretum hours, a garden contemplative practice in Delaware County's great green space.
At Tyler Arboretum in Media, a 650-acre historic arboretum, a permanent labyrinth sits among the heritage tree collections and meadows. It is walked at arboretum hours, a garden contemplative practice in Delaware County's great green space. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as Classical.
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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tylerarboretum.org carries the site's own information and schedule.
Photo: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giant_Sequoia_Sequoiadendron_giganteum_Tyler_Tree_2000px.jpg), CC BY-SA.
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