Von Bücher und Bäumen

The world of plants can be compared to an endlessly vast library of books. How else could one describe the diversity of forms, colors, sizes, and scents? In everyday life, the garden’s comprehensibility is what helps us. The limitation of space and means becomes liberating. It is not the totality of plants but the focus on selected ones that commands our attention. A perfect garden can therefore move us more deeply than nature in its wild form.

Yet the magic of a garden does not lie solely in the selection of various plants. The perception through the texture of leaves, the fragrances of blossoms, and the shadows of trees is direct and immediate.

The potential of the urban landscape lies in the city’s heterogeneity. Today, the nature of the city is more diverse than that of the countryside. This literally has to do with the substrate of the place. The highly fragmented form of urban vegetation tells the story of its own evolution.