Philosophy for gardeners : ideas and paradoxes to ponder in the garden
Collyns, Kate2022
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Explore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden. Gardening is an innately thoughtful as well as practical pastime: planning ahead, imagining how plants will grow, deciding what will make a 'good' garden, wondering at the beauty of flowers and noticing how ecosystems work. This delightful and engaging collection of essays illustrate how many philosophical ideas arise naturally in gardeners' everyday work. Growers by their nature are in fact already philosophers: existentialists who try to live and work by their own rules in a garden; stoics who put up with slug damage again and again, and try to work in harmony with nature; and practical quantum scientists who witness incredible processes going on in plant cells beneath the ground.
Main title:
Author:
Collyns, Kate, author
Imprint:
London : Frances Lincoln Limited Publishers, 2022.
Collation:
144 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9780711268210 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
635.01635.01 COL
Language:
English
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BRN:
2534868
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milton Keynes Central Library | Adult non-fiction | 635.01 COL | Onloan - Due: 05 May 2026 |