A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071122MZC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 555 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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As human-made climate change and mass extinction impacts the world's ability to function, we will be called upon to garden the planet more actively. Native plants in home, business, and public landscapes will play a critical role in helping us know and appreciate wildness, while waking us to global wildlife stewardship and cultivating equality among ourselves.
We all need to coexist under a broad and inclusive umbrella of compassion. (Susan J. The treasure, here, are his words, and in rich prose, he reminds us that we won't find wealth and health for the future through destruction and consumption. Vogt presents gardens as troubling sanctuaries of meaning, sites of ideological conflict, political statements, expressions of faith, places of cosmic connection, and dirt-under-the-nails realities of how we co-shape our world with other species. (Gavin Van Horn, Center for Humans and Nature and coeditor of Wildness: Relations of People and Place)Benjamin Vogt makes a great case for gardening with compassion for the earth - its treasures and inhabitants. We must rewild ourselves, reconnect with all of nature, and expand our compassion footprint. Tweit, plan
He owns Monarch Gardens LLC, a prairie garden design firm, and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife.. Benjamin writes a native plant gardening column at Houzz and speaks nationally on sustainable design and wildlife landscapes. His writing and photography has appeared in over sixty publications