The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens by Dale, Peter

The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781836390282)

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The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens by Dale, Peter

The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

$40.00
The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens by Dale, Peter

The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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Dig deep into our powerful connection with gardens across media and realms of human experience--from music to philosophy, painting to religion.

Why do interiors of houses mimic nature--the wallpapers and curtains, flowers in vases, a vaporizer in the bathroom? Why do we so often connect our childhoods with gardens? Why has the myth of a lost Eden been so ubiquitous and so formative? The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens explores our deep-rooted impulses to create gardens, examining them through the lenses of history, religion, nostalgia, and myth. It connects gardens with the other arts--painting, music, literature, and theater--and contemplates their intellectual and philosophical significance. Blending lyrical reflections with research, The Green Fuse offers an unusually wide-ranging and thoughtful perspective on gardens and why we make them. It will be ideal for all readers interested in gardening and its cultural implications.

Author: Peter Dale
ISBN-10: 1836390289
ISBN-13: 9781836390282
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 06/19/2025
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
By Peter Dale
By Peter Dale
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Peter Dale lives in Essex, United Kingdom. A longstanding contributor to Hortus, he has written extensively on literature, music, and gardens, and his previous books include The Irish Garden: A Cultural History and, with Brandon C. Yen, Versed in Living Nature: Wordsworth's Trees, the latter also published by Reaktion Books.

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