A New Garden Ethic: Cultivating Defiant Compassion for an Uncertain Future
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (542 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865718555 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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The treasure, here, are his words, and in rich prose, he reminds us that we won't find wealth and health for the future through destruction and consumption. Vogt aptly puts it, "It is time for daily wildness to be our calling. (Susan J. A powerful and transformative work, written with honesty and grace. A New Garden Ethic makes as persuasive a case as can be made for gardens as radical--to the roots--ways of knowing the world and reckoning with our place in it. Even as a person who has considered and questioned my own gardening goal
Benjamin Vogt has a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Benjamin writes a native plant gardening column at Houzz and speaks nationally on sustainable design and wildlife landscapes. His writing and photography has appeared in over sixty publications from literary journals to magazines and anthologies. He owns Mo
He writes a native plant garden design column at Houzz and speaks nationally on sustainable design and wildlife landscapes. He's the owner of Monarch Gardens, a prairie garden design firm, in Eastern Nebraska.. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically-programmed love for wildness. Simply put, environmentalism is not political, it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow.By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.Benjamin Vogt is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in over sixty publications. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter, and not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities.Author Benja