"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
Thomas More was an English statesman, lawyer, and humanist scholar of the Renaissance. He is best known for the work Utopia and for his execution under Henry VIII.