Gardening & philosophy
Subtitle: cultivating wisdom
By: edited by Dan O'Brien.
Contributors: O'Brien, Dan, 1968-
Series: Philosophy for everyone
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781444330212
Subjects: Gardening -- Philosophy; Gardens -- Philosophy
Other titles: Gardening and philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The virtues of gardening / Isis Brook; title: Cultivating the soul : the ethics of gardening in ancient Greece and Rome / Meghan T. Ray; title: Escaping Eden : plant ethics in a gardener's world / Matthew Hall; title: Food glorious food / Helene Gammack; title: Plants, prayers, and power : the story of the first Mediterranean gardens / Jo Day; title: Brussels sprouts and empire : putting down roots / Michael Moss; title: Transplanting liberty : LaFayette's American garden / Laura Aurrichio; title: Cockney plots : allotments and grassroots political activism / Elizabeth A. Scott; title: Hortus Incantans : gardening as an art of enchantment / Eric MacDonald; title: Gardens, music, and time / Ismay Barwell and John Powell; title: The pragmatic picturesque : the philosophy of Central Park / Gary Shapiro; title: Illusions of grandeur : a harmonious garden for the Sun King / Robert Neuman; title: Time and temporality in the garden / Mara Miller; title: Cultivating our garden : David Hume and gardening as therapy / Dan O'Brien; title: The garden of the Aztec philosopher-king / Susan Toby Evans; title: Epicurus, the garden, and the golden age / Gordon Campbell; title: Gardener of souls : philosophical education in Plato's Phaedrus / Anne Cotton.