
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible:
The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden.
If you don’t want paradise, you are not human;
and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul.
– Thomas Moore, The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life, 1996, p. 101