Gardening as a Sacred Art: Towards the Redemption of our Relationship with Nature
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Review\n"This thoughtful book challenges the gardener in us to work as an artist and experience the sacred presence around us by becoming creatively engaged with the hidden formative forces of Nature." --Network Review
"The main thrust of this profound and inspiring volume is to remind us that gardens are essentially sacred spaces in which we may work together with Nature in order that we may help her--and ourselves in the process--express more fully the divine presence hidden within the heart of her outward beauty." --Resurgence
"An exceptionally well-referenced, delightfully illustrated and informative work." --New View
"In his beautifully illustrated book, [Jeremy Naydler] re-sounds the call of the garden as a 'necessary counterbalance and corrective.' It's a welcome message towards re-sanctifying our world." --Nexus Magazine
"Gardeners will love this book. Occasionally you look down the garden you have worked all day...and you have that peace, that sense of the numinous that cannot be understood except by somehow knowing that it is vital. Our author has been so kind as to declare it for us: gardening is a sacred art." --Derek Cunningham, Self and Society----\nThis 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.
Today, gardening has come to be seen less as an instrument of control and more as an art in its own right that enhances nature’s inherent beauty. Jeremy Naydler suggests that the future of gardening lies in its being regarded not as just an art but more as a sacred art that once again honors and works with the spiritual dimension intrinsic to nature.
Gardening as a Sacred Art is illustrated in color throughout.
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