Gardening philosophy for everyone : cultivating wisdom / edited by Dan O'Brien ; foreward by David E. Cooper.
Material type: TextSeries: Philosophy for everyonePublication details: Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781444324563
- 144432456X
- 1444324578
- 9781444324570
- Gardening and philosophy
- 635.01 22
- SB454.3.P45 G36 2010
Includes bibliographical references.
The virtues of gardening / Isis Brook -- Cultivating the soul : the ethics of gardening in ancient Greece and Rome / Meghan T. Ray -- Escaping Eden : plant ethics in a gardener's world / Matthew Hall -- Food glorious food / Helene Gammack -- Plants, prayers, and power : the story of the first Mediterranean gardens / Jo Day -- Brussels sprouts and empire : putting down roots / Michael Moss -- Transplanting liberty : LaFayette's American garden / Laura Aurrichio -- Cockney plots : allotments and grassroots political activism / Elizabeth A. Scott -- Hortus Incantans : gardening as an art of enchantment / Eric MacDonald -- Gardens, music, and time / Ismay Barwell and John Powell -- The pragmatic picturesque : the philosophy of Central Park / Gary Shapiro -- Illusions of grandeur : a harmonious garden for the Sun King / Robert Neuman -- Time and temporality in the garden / Mara Miller -- Cultivating our garden : David Hume and gardening as therapy / Dan O'Brien -- The garden of the Aztec philosopher-king / Susan Toby Evans -- Epicurus, the garden, and the golden age / Gordon Campbell -- Gardener of souls : philosophical education in Plato's Phaedrus / Anne Cotton.
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