A review of findings shows that Persian gardens have attracted a wide area of interests between psychologists and environment designers. The main reasons behind attraction of Persian gardens are natural content and particular landscape configuration. To study these features, overall organization examination is employed according to psychological pattern. One of the impressive psychological pattern to evaluate the natural landscape is preference matrix which developed by Stephen and Rachel

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... . In this study, characteristics of Persian gardens are reviewed and they are analyzed according to the Kaplan preference factors (coherence, legibility, mystery and complexity). Because of inseparable relationship of human behavior and environment, the research methodology applies psychological approach based on a descriptive-analytical method to implement this method the library documents are used. As discussion demonstrates, concepts created from the relationship between factors and Persian gardens characteristics are associated with coherence, legibility, mystery and complexity. As well, it can be observed that the quality of material and semantic make Persian gardens more attractive to viewers.