In a way, gardens and parks reflect the representations of paradise of the prevailing place and the prevailing time. The garden is the ideal representation of a dwelling place, of security in an intact, peaceful piece of nature. In our hectic age dominated by technology, gardens, green areas and parks play an extremely important role as compensation for the stress and the agitation of our everyday life. Gardens require time, dedication and patience from their visitors and users, qualities that threaten to languish in modern times. Nature goes its own way in accordance with its own laws. Just like time cannot be stopped, we are not free to accelerate the course of nature. Of late, there have been increasingly more indications that man encroaches upon natural patterns with his actions, and that anthropogenic influences bring about considerable negative changes. It is therefore all the more important that a fundamental understanding of nature is retained or regenerated...