Olejar Books

We may all have feet of clay, but that shouldn´t stop us trying to make a difference. Wouldn´t we all rather look back and say, ´I´m glad I did,´ rather than ´I wish I had´? Some might smile at the naivety of such ambition, believing it to be impossible. We say, ´Demand the impossible´.


So said Tim Smit and thus was the impossible delivered: a living theatre of plants and people and their interdependence, housed in a disused china clay pit and featuring the world´s largest greenhouses. Well over five million visitors have since made their way to Eden, drawn by the astonishing, visionary ambition of its founders. This is Tim´s story of how it all came about: the Project´s genesis in the Lost Gardens of Heligan, its design and construction against all the odds, its supremely talented team of larger-than-life personalities. Above all, how the energy that brought the vision to life is being applied to possible futures. It is a vision for all to share.