means life and beauty are tethered to one another in God. Eden clarifies that beauty is essential to human experience because beauty is essential to God and His works. Remember who the actor is in Genesis 1–2. God creates. God plants. God forms.15 God put man in the garden. The first couple receives the garden, just as they received every other gift defining their life. God gives it to them. This makes sense of garden life, and it shows us why Eden is more to Adam and Eve than just a first home.