In this installation we wanted to acknowledge the history of the Cistercian monks at the monastery, their unique knowledge of the natural sciences, appreciation of the natural world, and the life of the mind. The hand-made 'alphabet boats' float in the renovated fountain, center of the courtyard, in an acknowledgment of language and communication. The floating garden container can survive only with mechanical intervention: a make-do irrigation system of a water wheel that turns by hand. The possible symbiosis of human knowledge and the environment is implied in a child-like fantasy of floating boats, that are as precarious as the garden that requires a hand to water it.