The Law of Significant Enclosure

Denise Clemen
17 min readAug 24, 2021

The law of significant enclosure says that we feel comfortably enclosed when the vertical edge of a space is at least one-third the length of the horizontal space we’re inhabiting.” — — every garden design website and blog on the internet.

Photo by Mitchell Gaiser on Unsplash

It’s late and our hotel is under construction. We’ve spent days driving through the wide-open West, and now the parking structure feels like a warren, barely tall enough…

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Denise Clemen

Birth/first mother, recovering wife, retired caregiver, traveler, collage artist. Advocate of #adopteerights and #reproductiverights and other good things.