It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been releg...
Gardening always has been an art, essentially.
It is curious to compare Ibn Khaldun with Edward Gibbon who in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776–88) presented that decline and fall as being due to barbarism and religion....