Is garden a place or a thing? Gardens could be thought of as possessing consciousness, just the way forests do. Gardens are nature-artificial in the sense that they are designed, pruned, planted, planned, nurtured, protected, enclosed. Garden is what we imagine it to be beyond earth (think of what paradise essentially is, or call to mind any serene scene from mythic drama). Garden doesn't belong to earth, it is elsewhere that has been brought to earth. Hope shares the same enclosure. Hope must also be designed, planted, planned for, nurtured, protected, fenced. Hope too is a place, and a thing. Hope too is from somewhere beyond earth.
