Plants are analogous to domestic pets, dogs, cats, ponies, canaries, and goldfish, tolerant to man and dependent upon him; lawn grasses, hedges, flowering shrubs and trees, tractable and benign, man's cohorts, sharing his domestication. This is the walled garden, separated from nature, a symbol of beneficence, island of delight, tranquility, introspection.
From Future Environments in North America by Ian L. McHarg
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