Gardening as a Sacred Art
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (782 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 086315834X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Since the seventeenth century, however, nature has been seen increasingly as a physical resource to be exploited. More recently gardening has become a more conscious art form intended to enhance nature’s inherent beauty. This beautifully illustrated book presents a unique history of how people have worked with nature throughout history. Drawing on garden examples from ancient Egypt to Monet’s Giverny, Jeremy Naydler asserts that gardening can be regarded as a sacred arta means of connecting human beings with nature and the Earth in a truly spiritual way.. This idea that gardens were sacred places continued into the European Middle Ages. Changes in gardening styles reflect this development, including the creation of grand garden terraces and landscapes such as Versailles, whose purpose is to impose human values, aestheti
-- Resurgence 'As a professional gardener himself and a scholar of symbolism and Geothe, Jeremy is ideally placed to write this book. Jeremy Naydler takes us back firstly to when gardens were not experienced simply as places of leisure but were integral to religious practice Gardeners will love this book. The message that the book conveys is that gardening, if done with due reverence for the Divine forces at work within the garden, can open a 'window to the spirit'. Occasionally you look down the garden you have worked all day (or maybe it was Nature that worked you!), and y
The Gentle Gardener Jeremy Naydler: I have not yet read this book but I have read all the others, and two of them twice (Temple and the essays in "The Future of the Ancient World." I know this one will be sublime.Your gentle brilliance shifted my attention to the world about 10 years ago. I was wandering among my friends and associates suddenly asking (out of the blue), "Which way does the Nile run - north or south?" I know - silly question - but no one I asked had thought about it. Then one day shortly thereafter someone randomly ha. Five Stars Clarisse Bolduc Thoroughly enjoyed the history of gardening through the ages. Very well written.
. Jeremy Naydler is a philosopher and cultural historian who lives in Oxford. He is the author of Temple of the Cosmos: The Ancient Egyptian Experience of the Sacred (1996) and Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts: The Mystical Tradition of Ancient Egypt (2005)