Cultivating Delight: A Natural History Of My Garden

Cultivating Delight: A Natural History Of My Garden by Diane Ackerman


ISBN
9780060199869
Published
Released
01 / 12 / 2001
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
261
Dimensions
165 x 235 x 25mm

In the mode of her esteemed bestseller 'A Natural History Of The Senses', Diane Ackerman's new book, 'Cultivating Delight' celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.

Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is dead heading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers.

Ackerman chronicles instances of violence in nature but also intuits loneliness and desire in the clamour of male crickets in the spring. And there is wonderment and marvel as she happens upon a tiny frog asleep inside the petals of a tulip Visitors to her garden range from botanical explorers of earlier centuries to the nature mystic John Muir to the brilliant British garden writer Gertrude Jekyll.

The author's garden nourishes its creator, who imaginatively returns the favour and seizes privileged moments to leap from science and metaphor to meditation on the human condition. Written in sensuous, lyrical prose, 'Cultivating Delight' is a hymn to nature and to the pleasure we take in it.
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