Renaissance gardens, Baroque gardens, English parks - all good and well. However, a romantic garden has never existed, even though we like to find romance in the remnants of nature that please our eyes. One would think that no one has engaged with nature as obsessively as the Romantics in Germany, France, and England. These individuals, known for their lack of modesty, had grander ambitions. Instead of gardens, they discovered the sublime backdrop of the Alps, which had been deemed a no-go area until then, sought the infinite in nature, and ultimately found the most powerful nature within themselves: Jean Paul described it as his inner Africa. Therefore, Hans von Trotha, who has visited and documented nearly all the gardens in Europe, writes in this book around a significant, yet all the more intriguing, gap.