There are many kinds of art and you would be hard pressed to find an art less understood or appreciated today than the horticultural arts.  Once considered essential to the living spaces of monarchs, large and elaborate gardens seem kind of stodgy and frou-frou by today's standards.

But the Prince of Wales is from another generation (and another class) and is a man who has always had a very different outlook on man's relationship to nature.  Highgrove, Charles' 1,000 acre private estate in western England, is regarded as a modern horticultural masterpiece.  And that masterpiece was developed without no artificial chemicals, fertilizers or poisons.

Of course, it has always been that way with Prince Charles.  The relase of his book this month, "The Elements of Organic Gardening", showcases the results of his life's labour in organic gardening and sustainable agriculture.

In October 2005, Charles told 60 Minutes, "I'm just trying to say that we ought to redefine the way in which progress is, is seen. Is it progress to rush headlong into upsetting the whole balance of nature, which is what I think we're beginning to do?"

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