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Gardening as a Sacred Art: Towards the Redemption of Our Relationship with Nature

Gardening as a Sacred Art: Towards the Redemption of Our Relationship with Nature

Naydler, Jeremy

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Metaphysical GeneralAgricultureOrganic Gardening

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ISBN10: 1912230771
ISBN13: 9781912230778
Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing
Published: Jul 15 2021
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
It is certainly a tension that runs through the history of gardening. The tension is between the extent to which we feel that the garden belongs to nature, and the extent to which we feel it belongs to us and is an expression of our own creative genius (or lack of it). Just because a garden exists within a polarity, which has on the one side nature and on the other the human ego, historically the attitude of gardeners toward their gardens has inclined either toward laissez faire stewardship, or (when taken to its extreme) toward the exercise of total domination.

This beautifully illustrated book presents a history of our relationship with nature, beginning with the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia--when gardens served as the dwelling place of the gods. Tracing this history through subsequent epochs, the author shows how human awareness of the divine presence in nature was gradually eclipsed. As nature came to be viewed primarily as a physical resource to be controlled and exploited by us, this was reflected in the ordered, rational designs imposed on such gardens as Versailles.

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