To Stand And Stare - Andrew Timothy O'Brien

Fresh and gently radical... a manifesto for a new way of looking at your garden, perfect for this moment in time, and very appealing indeed. Gardens IllustratedA quiet, contemplative piece woven together in a distinctively poetic way that will have you seeing the garden with fresh eyes. The English GardenA permission-granting manual to refreshingly hands-off horticulture. The New StatesmanA new book not so much about what to do in the garden, but how to be. Country Living Magazine__________Reconnect with nature from the ground up and nurture not only your garden but your body, mind, and soul.There''s a lot of advice out there that would tell you how to do numerous things in your garden.But not so much that invites you to think about how to be while you''re out there. With increasingly busy lives, yet another list of chores seems like the very last thing any of us needs when it comes to our own practice of self-care, relaxation and renewal. After all, aren''t these the things we wanted to escape to the garden for in the first place?Put aside the ''Jobs to do this week'' section in the Sunday papers. What if there was a more low-intervention way to garden, some reciprocal arrangement through which both you and your soil get fed, with the minimum degree of fuss, effort and guilt on your part, and the maximum measure of healthy, organic growth on that of your garden?A gardening book unlike anything you''ve read before:- A celebration of the quiet joy of gardening, and the importa
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