The Garden was a Farm

From:

A Reenchanted World:
The quest for a new kinship with Nature

jameswilliamgibson.com
page 252

...Moreover, enchantment gives mythic resonance to the great difficulties facing grand-scale environmental restoration...In Genesis, for example...God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden to "cultivate and care for it"...

"By Love our Souls are married and solder'd to the creatures and it is our Duty like God to be united to them all."

~Thomas Traherne