More and more, our cities are mineralized worlds, claiming our freedom from the constraints of nature. Worlds of stone, concrete, glass and steel, they, however, display many references to the signs of a regretted flora, to a lost nature, to its conquest and domination. Presented today more often in the form of advertisement pictures, during several centuries, nature was shown through art forms, and through this form of urbanization, it embellished our everyday life. It is to a pleasant hermeneutics that the author invite us.