Gardens are us, We are Nature: Transcending Antiquity and ModernityFootnote^*

* I thank David R. Harris, Walter L. Meagher, Miles Richardson, Paul Robbins, and Philip L. Wagner for their insightful comments on an earlier draft of this article and, most of all, Clarissa Kimber, with whom I have had the distinct privilege of walking through countless gardens in locales as diverse and as distant as northern New Mexico, northwestern Mexico, the Yucatán Peninsula, the Dominican Republic, and Peru.

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