Celebrated landscape architect Gilles Clement may be best known for
his public parks in Paris, including the Parc Andre Citroen and the
garden of the Musee du Quai Branly, but he describes himself as a
gardener. To care for and cultivate a plot of land, a capable
gardener must observe in order to act and work with, rather than
against, the natural ecosystem of the garden. In this sense, he
suggests, we should think of the entire planet as a garden, and
ourselves as its keepers, responsible for the care of its
complexity and diversity of life. "The Planetary Garden" is an
environmental manifesto that outlines Clement's interpretation of
the laws that govern the natural world and the principles that
should guide our stewardship of the global garden of Earth. These
are among the tenets of a humanist ecology, which posits that the
natural world and humankind cannot be understood as separate from
one another. This philosophy forms a thread that is woven through
the accompanying essays of this volume: "Life, Constantly
Inventive: Reflections of a Humanist Ecologist" and "The Wisdom of
the Gardener." Brought together and translated into English for the
first time, these three texts make a powerful statement about the
nature of the world and humanity's place within it.
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