The shift to ‘nature’ in landscaping entailed an approach whereby the finished product gave little, if any, hint that someone had been hired in the first place. Brown’s landscapes seemed entirely natural, entirely expected, as if they had been that way since time immemorial, but they were indeed artificial.

Henry David Thoreau was an American poet and philosopher as well as one of the pre-eminent naturalists of the 19th century who prefigured contemporary environmentalism and ecology.

What was the Garden of Epicurus? The flow of time severs us from so many things, letting fall all but the present like cut blades of grass dropping onto a lawn. The Garden of Epicurus is one such blade. It was the first of many Epicurean communities that sprung-up around the Mediterranean during antiquity.