The Californian architechtural style owes much to the influence of Classical Antiquity. Hearst Castle is framed beautifully by the Hearst Gardens and is located within the surrounding Big Sur Coast. The native tongue translates as the gateway to heaven.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims

The shell represents Golden mean is also sometimes used as a synonym for the golden ratio (also called golden section, golden number, or divine proportion), the irrational number approximately 1.61803..., which has applications in several fields including mathematics, aesthetics (especially art, architecture, and design), and science.