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A review by kali
Philosophy In The Garden by Damon Young
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Young details the inner lives of a number of influential authors such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Orwell, Colette and Dickinson, and their relationships with their gardens and nature. A garden philosophically represents the conjunction of humanity and nature, and in this book Young shows the ways that these authors understood themselves, their beliefs of how the world worked, and their place within it, through contemplation and reflection in their gardens. I have always found a symbiosis between my own writing and gardening -- a way to anchor my thoughts, to form some coherent order, and to cull distractions.
Young details the inner lives of a number of influential authors such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Orwell, Colette and Dickinson, and their relationships with their gardens and nature. A garden philosophically represents the conjunction of humanity and nature, and in this book Young shows the ways that these authors understood themselves, their beliefs of how the world worked, and their place within it, through contemplation and reflection in their gardens. I have always found a symbiosis between my own writing and gardening -- a way to anchor my thoughts, to form some coherent order, and to cull distractions.