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.

Plant communities for you and me. In light of our need to be immersed in plant-life and for it to be ubiquitous, how can we achieve this on a sustainable level? How does landscape and garden design need to respond?

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.