1. Garden of Eden - Noun
2. Garden of Eden - Proper noun
a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were driven from their paradise (the fall of man)
Source: WordNetDid perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified? Chuck Palahniuk
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden. W. Somerset Maugham
Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent. Robert G. Ingersoll
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. William Least Heat-Moon
All the theologians-all the believers in "special creation” were absolutely wrong. The Garden of Eden faded away, Adam and Eve fell back to dust, the snake crawled into the grass, and Jehovah became a miserable myth. Robert G. Ingersoll
We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. Voltaire