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The Good Gardener? - Nature, Humanity and the Garden (Paperback)
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The Good Gardener? - Nature, Humanity and the Garden (Paperback)
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The Good Gardener? Nature, Humanity, and the Garden illuminates
both the foundations and after-effects of humanity's deep-rooted
impulse to manipulate the natural environment and create garden
spaces of diverse kinds. Gardens range from subsistence plots to
sites of philosophical speculation, refuge, and self-expression.
Gardens may serve as projections of personal or national identity.
They may result from individual or collective enterprises. They may
shape the fabric of the dwelling house or city. They may be real or
imagined, literary constructs or visions of paradise rendered in
paint. Some result from a delicate negotiation between creator and
medium. Others, in turn, readily reveal the underlying paradox of
every garden's creation: the garden, so often viewed as a kinder,
gentler, 'second nature, ' results from violence done to what was
once wilderness. Designed as a companion volume to Earth Perfect?
Nature, Utopia, and the Garden, this richly illustrated collection
of provocative essays is edited by Annette Giesecke, Professor of
Classics at the University of Delaware, and Naomi Jacobs, Professor
of English at the University of Maine. Contributors to this
wide-ranging volume include photographer Margaret Morton, landscape
ethicist Rick Darke, philosopher David Cooper, environmental
journalist Emma Marris, and food historian William Rubel.
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