Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition by Robert Pogue Harrison

Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition

Robert Pogue Harrison

262 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction essays philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as far away from everyday reality as Gilgamesh’s garden of the gods or as near as our own backyard, but i...

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