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Beginning in 1976 Hundertwasser had been busy reverting his estate in Kaurinui, New Zealand, back to nature, effectively standing up for nature's rights. He planted more than 100,000 indigenous trees, built canals, ponds and water purfication plants. He utilised solar and water energy, he used the humus toilet and researched recycling methods. He realised his desire for an ecological burial in the Garden of the Happy Dead. The layout plan, created in 1979, was reprinted in the book Ao Tea Roa - Island of Lost Desire (see APA 193), Hamburg, 1979. Hundertwasser painted over an aerial photograph of his estate and created a topography of the land by naming rivers, valleys, hills and paths.