By Loving, You May Also Be Loved

By Loving, You May Also Be Loved is a sustainable landscaping project centred on water as a source of life, comprising three interconnected gardens: Moon, Stars, and Wind. The design generates ecosystem services and mitigates climate change through Nature-based Solutions (NbS). By caring for nature, humanity ensures its own survival. Pollinators sustain us by fertilising crops, and in return, the garden provides them with food and shelter.

Plant diversity—including native and therapeutic species—attracts biodiversity, protected through biocontrol. The project is imbued with poetry: a drop of water transformed into “honey” (Borges) through love could eternalise life on Earth, and a seed could become the “tree of life” (Victor Hugo) if visitors embrace their alliance with nature.

The nocturnal Egyptian water clock, the clepsydra, reminds us that planetary resources are finite; sustainable water management triggers a biodiversity cascade. A path leads to the Moon Garden, with silvery-white plants reflecting moonlight, attracting efficient nocturnal pollinators. The clepsydra converses with a tree providing food and refuge, sustained by water. Beyond the path lies the Star Garden, inspired by pointillist aesthetics; its resilient flowers transmit colour, beauty, and hope, forming a biodiversity corridor connecting three heart-shaped-leaved trees symbolic of the three ecosystem services. The Wind Garden exposes the threat of monocultures: despite its muted colours, it aids seed dispersal, with the sound of the breeze enchanting visitors.

If visitor emotions can sustain the last drop of the clepsydra, sustainable water management will nourish seeds, support pollinators, propagate crops, and control pests. Visitors’ emotional engagement transforms into water droplets, nourishing biodiversity. Only then can we truly appreciate how many lives make up a tree and can navigate toward immortality through the realm of sustainability.