About the Book: Garden: Our 4, 000 Year Quest for Paradise
From the Garden of Eden to Gethsemane, from the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to
the pleasure gardens of Versailles, from the Zen gardens of Kyoto to the
landscapes of Capability Brown and New Yorks High Line, the garden has always
been far more than somewhere to grow things.
It is where humanity has worked out its relationship with the natural world —
the place where culture, spirituality and nature converge. An inspiration for
poets, painters and philosophers across four thousand years and every
civilisation on earth.
In this magnificent work of