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Book Synopsis Writing the Garden by : Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Download or read book Writing the Garden written by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book accompanies the exhibition "Writing the Garden" organized in 2011 by the New York Society Library."
Book Synopsis A New Garden Ethic by : Benjamin Vogt
Download or read book A New Garden Ethic written by Benjamin Vogt and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.
Download or read book A Way to Garden written by Margaret Roach and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A Way to Garden prods us toward that ineffable place where we feel we belong; it’s a guide to living both in and out of the garden.” —The New York Times Book Review For Margaret Roach, gardening is more than a hobby, it’s a calling. Her unique approach, which she calls “horticultural how-to and woo-woo,” is a blend of vital information you need to memorize and intuitive steps you must simply feel and surrender to. In A Way to Garden, Roach imparts decades of garden wisdom on seasonal gardening, ornamental plants, vegetable gardening, design, gardening for wildlife, organic practices, and much more. She also challenges gardeners to think beyond their garden borders and to consider the ways gardening can enrich the world. Brimming with beautiful photographs of Roach’s own garden, A Way to Garden is practical, inspiring, and a must-have for every passionate gardener.
Book Synopsis The Humane Gardener by : Nancy Lawson
Download or read book The Humane Gardener written by Nancy Lawson and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.
Download or read book Making a Life written by Melanie Falick and published by Artisan. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 Why do we make things by hand? And why do we make them beautiful? Led by the question of why working with our hands remains vital and valuable in the modern world, author and maker Melanie Falick went on a transformative, inspiring journey. Traveling across continents, she met quilters and potters, weavers and painters, metalsmiths, printmakers, woodworkers, and more, and uncovered truths that have been speaking to us for millennia yet feel urgently relevant today: We make in order to slow down. To connect with others. To express ideas and emotions, feel competent, create something tangible and long-lasting. And to feed the soul. In revealing stories and gorgeous original photographs, Making a Life captures all the joy of making and the power it has to give our lives authenticity and meaning.
Download or read book Fearless Gardening written by Loree Bohl and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fearless Gardening encourages you—exhorts you—to boldly go forth and claim your garden as a space of joy and creativity.” —Jennifer Jewell, creator and host of public radio’s Cultivating Place Embrace your inner rebel and create the garden you want—even if it breaks the rules. Loree Bohl, the voice behind the popular blog The Danger Garden, shows how it’s done in Fearless Gardening, with zone-busting ideas and success stories. Bohl’s own gorgeous home garden inspires, with agaves that shrug off ice storms, palms that thrive in the rain, and planting risks that are beautifully rewarded.
Book Synopsis Grow What You Love by : Emily Murphy
Download or read book Grow What You Love written by Emily Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you dream of planting a garden but aren't sure where to begin? Are you looking for simple ways to optimize space and fine-tune your veggie plot? Do you want to cook with delicious fare that you harvest yourself? Brimming with seasonal inspiration and expert know-how, Grow What You Love highlights the best plants for gardeners and chefs alike - proving that adding flavor to your plate (and your day) can come with minimal effort. Lavishly illustrated with more than 250 photographs, this informative and accessible guide is ideal for aspiring gardeners looking to take their first steps toward healthy, handmade living. Seasoned green thumbs looking to shake things up with new techniques and flavor combinations will also find much to love in Emily Murphy's gardening philosophy. When you grow what you love, you grow more than a garden you grow a new appreciation for the simple things. Grow What You Love is Emily Murphy's guide to enriching yourself and your family, from the ground up.
Book Synopsis Knowledge According to My Gardener: 50 Stories and Crosswords to Start TOK Conversations by : Ayman Al Zanoun
Download or read book Knowledge According to My Gardener: 50 Stories and Crosswords to Start TOK Conversations written by Ayman Al Zanoun and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory of Knowledge (TOK) is about how to think, not what to think. In Knowledge According to My Gardener, author Ayman Al Zanoun offers fifty stories and crossword puzzles to bring TOK conversations to life and to add a sense of entertainment to learning. Designed to help students and teachers to start meaningful conversations about knowledge and the ends of good education, Knowledge According to My Gardener first tells the story of a struggling teacher who couldn't communicate with students and how discovering the power of storytelling changed his life. It then introduces the gardener, the common thread in all the stories, who embarks on a unique journey to explore knowledge. Each story presents philosophical insights drawn from Plato, Rorty, Wittgenstein, and many others and blends them with the world of everyday life, the world of selfies, football, and birthdays.
Book Synopsis Conversations with Stanley Kunitz by : Kent P. Ljungquist
Download or read book Conversations with Stanley Kunitz written by Kent P. Ljungquist and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “He again tops the crowd—he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity.” That's what Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) and his evolving artistry. The interviews and conversations contained in this volume derive from four decades of Kunitz's distinguished career. They touch on aesthetic motifs in his poetry, the roots of his work, his friendships in the sister arts of painting and sculpture, his interactions with Lowell and Theodore Roethke, and his comments on a host of poets: John Keats, Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, Wallace Stevens, and Anna Akhmatova. Kunitz emerged from a mid-sized industrial town in central Massachusetts, surviving family tragedy and a sense of personal isolation and loneliness, to become an eloquent spokesman for poetry and for the power of the human imagination. Kunitz has commented, “If we want to know what it felt like to be alive at any given moment in the long odyssey of the race, it is to poetry we must turn.” His own odyssey from “metaphysical loneliness” to a sense of community with fellow writers and artists—by building institutions like Poets House and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts—is ever present in these interviews.
Book Synopsis Conversations with My Gardener by : Henri Cueco
Download or read book Conversations with My Gardener written by Henri Cueco and published by Granta Books (Uk). This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men, both advancing in years, converse in a garden deep in the French countryside. One is an artist, the other his gardener. On finishing his work, the gardener enters the studio and looks over the artist's shoulder. As the artist draws, the gardener talks: about his youth, his family, his travels, his health, and, of course, the pleasures of gardening. Sometimes the artist responds, sometimes he just listens; but all the while the bond between these two very different men is deepening. Their growing friendship produces many moments of dry humour: when the gardener visits the artist in Paris, he brings an anvil along in his luggage; the pair go to the forest on a mission to steal a twenty foot fir tree; they marvel at the curious habits of local characters, and ponder whether a modern-day Jesus would take a job on the railway. There are moments of profundity, too, when the two friends reflect on their own mortality, and the equally taxing question of whether a lettuce can be as beautiful as a painting.
Book Synopsis Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations by : Jim Ellis
Download or read book Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations written by Jim Ellis and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
Download or read book Gardens written by Merilyn Simonds and published by Greystone Books. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers have long found relaxation and inspiration in gardening, often discussing their efforts in eloquent essays that seem to capture the very scent of the earth. This anthology brings together the best gardening essays from around the world and across the centuries. Highlights in this rich, satisfying collection include medieval herbalist John Gerard extolling the virtues of the potato, Czech playwright Karel Capek’s celebrating the winter garden, Catherine Parr Traill’s 1855 gardening tips, and a reminiscence of Thomas Hardy by his gardener, Bertie Stephens.
Book Synopsis Call Me an As by : Dr. Lorenzo Suter
Download or read book Call Me an As written by Dr. Lorenzo Suter and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Call Me an AS presents a holistic, integrated, and principle-centered approach to solving personal and professional problems by teaching others to look inward instead of outward to achieve personal fulfillment. Dr. Lorenzo Suter is the best-selling author of Self-Empowerment. Suter hosts and speaks at events all over the world. His passion is to empower entrepreneurs, healthcare leaders, and business owners to help them attain massive success. Once cited in the Interior Journal as a “prototypical entrepreneur,” Dr. Suter has literally built his entire career on that definition even before the term entrepreneur came into common use. He is a high-energy, fiscal-conscious, and goal-driven executive and motivational speaker. Through anecdotes and scriptures, Suter provides practical advice that will help anyone strengthen their intuitive decision-making skills while also sharing detailed guidance on how to change. Some changes are easier to accomplish than others. When our troubled emotions result from lack of knowledge or skill, people can sometimes be taught techniques to help themselves. For one reason or another, the troubled person has never learned what to think and do in the face of life changes that create chronic or recurrent distress and dysfunction. Their problems are not the result of deep emotional troubles but of a lack of knowledge or skill to cope effectively. From the outset, I met a mountain of obstacles—obstacles not due to a prejudiced or unwilling mind but to an unconscious single-mindedness and an automatic habit of judgment I had never noticed before. Initially, I wondered if I would ever be able to step outside my structured mind. This was certainly a challenge to be reckoned with, and something in me responded with energy. One must be able to have (1) humility, (2) ingenuity, (3) fruition, and (4) knowledge to gain understanding that (7) contentment and (8) greed can detour you from understanding your (9) senses and becoming a (10) Christian. I am now in a place where I no longer feel sad. Instead, I have happy sorrow! Wasted energy does not produce the code. One must have emotional agility. Call me an as! Lil Cuz (titular character of a children’s book) would suggest for you to Beat Adversity and Aspire to Live (a chapter in Self-Empowerment), and live in The Tr-Youth (an Autobiography).
Download or read book Testimonios written by and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—sometimes almost as an afterthought. These interviews were eventually archived at the University of California, though many were all but forgotten. Testimonios presents thirteen women’s firsthand accounts from the days when California was part of Spain and Mexico. Having lived through the gold rush and seen their country change so drastically, these women understood the need to tell the full story of the people and the places that were their California.
Book Synopsis Round about My Garden ; The Incomplete Angler by : Sir Francis Cowley Burnand
Download or read book Round about My Garden ; The Incomplete Angler written by Sir Francis Cowley Burnand and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conversations with Robert Morgan by : Randall Wilhelm
Download or read book Conversations with Robert Morgan written by Randall Wilhelm and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Morgan (b. 1944) is one of the most distinguished writers in southern and Appalachian literature, celebrated for his novels, poetry, short fiction, and historical and biographical writing, totaling more than thirty volumes. Morgan’s work gives voice to the traditionally underrepresented people of southern Appalachia, and his appearances in such popular venues as The Oprah Winfrey Show, National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and the New York Times Bestseller List have contributed to his wide readership and successful dismantling of Hollywood stereotypes that still dog the region in the nation’s larger consciousness. His writing makes a case for the dignity of work, the beauty and terror of the landscape, and the essential value of creating a community and learning to live in the world. The interviews in Conversations with Robert Morgan provide readers and scholars the first stand-alone book on Morgan’s long and fascinating career as a master of multiple genres, and make a significant contribution to the understanding of American, southern, and Appalachian literature and culture. Collected here are five decades of interviews that cover such topics as literary influence, the impact of war on family and community, poetic and narrative craft, the role of environmentalism in American literature, and the journey from impoverished North Carolina mountain boy to award-winning Ivy League professor. Morgan is Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1971. Readers will learn about writing across multiple genres, craft that can be learned and practiced by a writer, and studying the past for those present truths that create what Morgan values most in literature, “a community across time.”
Book Synopsis The Film Encyclopedia by : Ephraim Katz
Download or read book The Film Encyclopedia written by Ephraim Katz and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 4150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ephraim Katz's The Film Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive single-volume encyclopedia on film and is considered the undisputed bible of the film industry. Completely revised and updated, this seventh edition features more than 7,500 A–Z entries on the artistic, technical, and commercial aspects of moviemaking, including: Directors, producers, actors, screenwriters, and cinematographers; Styles, genres, and schools of filmmaking; Motion picture studios and film centers; Film-related organizations and events; Industry jargon and technical terms; Inventions, inventors, and equipment; Plus comprehensive listings of academy award–winning films And artists, top-grossing films, and much more!
