In 1979, real estate developer Henry T. Segerstrom appealed to Noguchi to devise a plan for a cultural site for his Sun Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa, California, some 40 miles south of Noguchi’s birthplace, Los Angeles. The resulting plan found Noguchi essentializing the diverse ecosystems found within California through sculptural elements and plantings to create the evocative landscape compositions The Desert Land and Forest Walk. At the same time, he commented on the complicated ecological issues raised in making some of these areas habitable for larger populations: Water Source and Water Use were placed at opposite ends of a circuitous abstract stream, while Land Use and Energy Fountain were arrayed on opposite sides of the plaza’s expanse. A late addition to the composition, a mound of fitted granite stones, Spirit of the Lima Bean, alluded to the area’s (and the Segerstrom family’s) agricultural origins.