Philosophy For Gardeners Ideas And Paradoxes To Ponder In The Garden Kate Collyns by Kate Collyns 9780711268210, 0711268215 instant download after payment.

Explore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden.

Gardening is aninnately thoughtful as well as practical pastime: planning ahead, imagining how plants will grow, deciding what will make a 'good' garden, wondering at the beauty of flowers and noticing how ecosystems work.

This delightful andengaging collection of essays illustrate how manyphilosophical ideas arise naturally in gardeners’ everyday work.

Growers by their nature are in fact already philosophers:

• existentialists who try to live and work by their own rules in a garden;
• stoics who put up with slug damage again and again, and try to work in harmony with nature;
• and practicalquantum scientists who witness incredible processes going on in plant cells beneath the ground.

InPhilosophy for Gardeners, Kate Collyns usesaspects of gardening to introduce and explore a range of philosophical ideas and schools of thought; cultivating a greater understanding and appreciation ofintriguing concepts, propagated fromscience, evolution and aesthetics through topolitics, economics and ethics.

Broken into four sections,Soil, Growth, Harvest andCycles, each section explores questions of philosophy through the lens of the garden.A fascinating read, this book is as perfect for students of philosophy as it is for gardeners,filled with thought-provoking reflections on life, being and existence.