The Planetary Garden and other writings

Gilles Clément imagines the whole planet as a garden, with humans as its guardians, responsible for looking after its complexity and the biodiversity. The 'planetary garden' is a way of thinking about ecology as the integration of people — the gardeners – into the tiniest regions of the globe. Its guiding idea is founded on the 'garden in motion' principle: do the most for, the minimum against. Gardeners in 'planetary gardens' value diversity and allow species to thrive. They don't want to keep things tidy; instead, they want to maintain life by employing their abilities to support health and human harmony.There are no terrible weeds for the gardener, just weeds that are in the wrong place (Clément, 2015). Clément suggests that The garden must maintain a zone of uncertainty, a zone of nonintervention that is diversified and large enough to regenerate as soon as the need arises. Nature offers alternate solutions to evolution's continual reorientations on its own (Clément, 2015, p36).

The book made me reflect on the relationship between humans and nature and how humans maintain nature. I have preserved the species in the existing woodland and planting areas of the KGVD site, keeping them wild instead of limiting their possibilities for future development.

This montage demonstrates that the Planet is a garden, constantly gifting precious benefits to humans and non-humans, with humans as the gardeners, guarding the planet. Creatures on the planet interact and connect.

GARDEN IN MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY - JACQUES CHIRAC