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Their love of Central Park was no secret — it was a place where John Lennon and Yoko Ono found peace and beauty, just steps from their home, the Dakota.

The Central Park of today, however, is a far different one than the new residents experienced almost 40 years ago.

“When they first moved to the Dakota in 1973, Central Park was not a very happy place, and it didn't look good, and John and Yoko actually had the idea to donate some grass seed to the park,” says historian Sara Cedar Miller.

Of course, it would be more than grass seeds that would forever bind the couple to the park.

In her new book "Strawberry Fields: Central Park's Memorial to John Lennon," the historian and photographer for the Central Park Conservancy details how the creation of Strawberry Fields, named after the John Lennon-penned Beatles song, would revitalize the rest of the park.

“It gave energy and impetuous to join the Conservancy to believe that Central Park could have a restoration and a revival,” says Miller.

Yoko Ono donated $1 million to the conservancy to transform a 2.5 acre of land in the shape of a teardrop into an international garden of peace. More than 100 countries adopted a plant on the site.

Strawberry Fields was dedicated in 1985, nearly five years after the death of John Lennon. At its heart is the iconic black and white marble mosaic that reads "Imagine."

For Miller, Yoko Ono's choice to inscribe the word on it couldn't have been more perfect.

“The same inspiration that started Central Park, a utopian place where there would be peace and harmony and we wouldn't have possessions, we would just enjoy nature, and that’s what the song ‘Imagine’ is all about,” says Miller.

She adds that that's what Central Park is all about, too.