No question: the Huntington gardens, at the grounds of the Huntington Library and Museum, just outside Pasadena, in San Marino, CA. They have at least a dozen different micro-ecosystems and ordered gardens there, all gorgeous, all delightful to walk through. They don't allow cellphones, audible radios or music players, or flash photography, which means it's just you and the sounds of nature and people enjoying it.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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