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The Inviting Garden: Gardening for the Senses, Mind, and Spirit - Hardcover

Lacy, Allen

 
9780805037425: The Inviting Garden: Gardening for the Senses, Mind, and Spirit
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 080503742X ISBN 13: 9780805037425
Verlag: Henry Holt and Co., 1998

Inhaltsangabe

"Allen Lacy is one of America's most provocative writers."--Christopher Lloyd

In The Inviting Garden, Allen Lacy speaks for the great number of dedicated and committed gardeners who share his passion for green and growing things and who take pleasure in all the rich satisfactions that the personal garden offers its makers. He also invites the beginner to take the plunge--to set forth on the lifelong journey that is the gardener's way of life.

Gardening, Lacy explains with great eloquence and good humor, is much more than a hobby. It delights all the senses, each in its turn. It offers virtually endless intellectual stimulation. It has a profound spiritual dimension, as a basis for the lifelong friendships that bind people together in the common and shared pursuit of making the earth flourish with beauty. Its joys are unlimited, for they engage its practitioners as whole persons, not partial beings.

With the kind of tantalizing prose that makes you want to reach for a trowel, Allen Lacy gives us a deeply thoughtful book on the whole enterprise of gardening.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Allen Lacy is professor of philosophy at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey and the author of numerous books on gardening, including The Garden in Autumn (0-8050-4067-6, $25.00) and The Glory of Roses. He lives in Linwood, New Jersey.

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A new book by Lacy is an event looked forward to by countless fans of this inspiring garden writer. A philosophy professor at a New Jersey college, Lacy contemplates the limitless pleasures of gardening in a mode that is fully mindful of the indisputable work involved in the making of a very special garden space. Stating that his intent in this latest effort is to seduce the reader by introducing the passion of gardening and its lifetime rewards, Lacy accomplishes his goal wholeheartedly. Celebrating the garden's sensory delights, reveling in the rejuvenating powers that come with seizing restful moments in beautiful garden settings, and concocting ways of pointing out opportunities that satisfy mind and soul, Lacy offers the novice and avid gardener alike a delicious ode to miraculous sights, scents, and sounds we can incorporate into our own gardens, and may certainly enjoy in renowned gardens awaiting our visits. Alice Joyce

Noted garden writer Lacy (The Garden in Autumn, Holt, 1995) invites all gardeners to contemplate gardening as more than just a physical activity. As he explains, gardening also satisfies a need in humans for sensory enrichment, intellectual stimulation, and spiritual fulfillment. Lacy starts his text with chapters on the senses of touch, scent, taste, hearing, and sight in home gardens. This is followed by a section on gardening for the mind, in which Lacy discusses the history and nomenclature of plants. The careful attention that botanists and horticulturists gave to plants is included in this historical discussion. Then in the final essays, Lacy explores the rhythms that people experience that place them within the natural world. This gardening-for-the-spirit section provides an opportunity for the reader to think about all the obscure reasons for gardening. Lacy writes well, and his thoughtful book is recommended for all collections.?Dale Luchsinger, Milwaukee Area Technical Coll.
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Verlag
Henry Holt and Co.
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080503742X
ISBN 13 
9780805037425
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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