No more of talk where God or Angel Guest
             With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us'd
             To sit indulgent and with him partake
             Rural repast permitting him the while
             Venial discourse unblam'd: I now must change
             Those Notes to Tragic; foul distrust and breach
             Disloyal on the part of Man, revolt,
             And disobedience: on the part of Heav'n
             Now alienated, distance and distaste... (PL. IX, 1-9)
             In Paradise Lost, the consequences of the fall and the change in relations between man and nature can best be discussed
             when we look at Milton's pre-fall descriptions of Eden and its inhabitants. Believing that fallen humans could never fully
             understand what life was like in Eden and the relationships purely innocent beings shared, Milton begins his depiction of
             Paradise and Adam and Eve through the fallen eyes of Satan:
             Any, but God alone, to value right
             The good before him, but perverts best things
             To worse abuse, or to thir meanest use.
             Beneath him with new wonder now he views
             To all delight of human sense expos'd
             In narrow room Nature's whole wealth, yea more,
             A Heaven on Earth: for blissful Paradise
             Of God the Garden was, by him in the East
             Of Eden planted... (IV, 201-210)
             Milton presents a symbolic landscape, a garden that certainly was created by a divine power. Eden is fertile, and"All Trees of
             noblest kind for sight, smell taste" (IV, 217) grow in abundance blooming with fruit. There are, mountains, hills, groves, a
             river, and other earthly delights. Adam and Eve live in this paradise and their job is to tend to the garden: "They sat them
             down, and after no more toil/ Of thir sweet Gard'ning labor then suffic'd" (IV, 27-28).
             Although Eden works harmoniously with Adam and Eve, allowing them to partake of its abundance, it also lives and thrives
             on its own. Eden has a mind and is...