In What About Nature? Gerbrand Bakker tries to grasp the human urge to control nature. He is amazed by all the things he encounters during his job as a gardener: birds, trees, pets and, of course, gardens. Neat and raked, wild and overgrown, Bakker has seen them all and explores if and how cultivated nature mirrors the human psyche. Can you detect the character-type of a person, simply by looking at their garden? Do we want to control nature, to show that we, humans, are indeed stronger, smarter and more powerful?

Bakker takes the reader along with him, through the seasons, to the forests of Germany, where he currently lives, and to his native soil in the Netherlands, the Wieringerwaard. In his distinctive, subtle and humorous style, he examines how we – humans, plants, and animals – live together in a world in which he both welcomes and curses nature, but in which he above all tries to find the underlying connection.