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.

He opposed the King's separation from the Roman Catholic Church and refused to accept him as Supreme Head of the Church of England a title which had been given by parliament through the Act of Supremacy of 1534. More coined the word "utopia" – a name he gave to the ideal and imaginary island nation the political system of which he described in Utopia publiThomas Mored in 1516. ".