Garden of Eden
Britishnoun
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In 1994 the Hollywood film “Rapa-Nui” rendered the mythical apocalypse into a technicolor epic of ecocide and cannibalism in which the Garden of Eden was destroyed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Los Angeles was the new Garden of Eden.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2025
One is filled with flowers sprouting everywhere like a Garden of Eden gone berserk.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024
It could have been the Garden of Eden, so rich was the promise of paradise.
From BBC • Nov. 5, 2023
It was a Garden of Eden of a hellish sort: isolated, untouched, parched, and rocky—turds of congealed lava overrun by “hideous iguanas,” tortoises, and birds.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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