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.

What were urban medieval gardens like? The typical view of medieval life is of poverty and subsistence living. A world in which peasants scratched a living from patches of soil while aristocrats lived off their work. In fact, although medieval life could be hard, it was not without pleasure and beauty, and during the medieval period, the modern pleasure garden gradually developed.