Cismigiu Gardens is a large park in the center of Bucharest. It was created in 1860, when 30,000 trees, plants and shrubs were brought in from all over Romania. Today the park serves as an urban refuge, an oasis of calm in the middle of a chaotic city. This man seemed utterly calm as he sat alone on a bench, his leg extended, his heel often rising slightly off the ground. Otherwise he remained quiet, the very essence of that most contemplative of human values.