The paper reflects the relationship between culture and nature, indicating that culture has emerged from spontaneous Darwinian necessity as a human system adaptation mechanism to nature. Thus, culture is in every way the "continuation of nature by another means”. However, the most problematic aspect of culture in relation to nature is its artificiality. Nature does not prevent culture from creating the artificial world but this artificial world is at the same time much more vulnerable than nature. Through culture we are coping with nature but we have not managed to cope with culture itself. In order to solve contemporary human and environmental problems we need to develop a "metaculture”, i.e. a critical self-reflection of culture. As an example of creating different civilization, the author points to the city culture transformed and moulded according to the paradigm of a garden. The garden may serve as a model of harmonious environment in which the differences between natural and cultural aspects are both preserved and revoked at the same time and in the same place.