Spirit Garden

Author : Dan Pearson
Publisher : Fuel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 095635629X

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Spirit by Dan Pearson Pdf

In this unique book influential garden designer Dan Pearson, weekly columnist for The Observer, discloses his personal inspirations. Dan uses his own distinctive photographs as reference points - giving the reader a direct and intimate insight into where and what he draws upon when working on his own projects. The images show how he looks at his surroundings, and importantly, how they inform his approach of working with nature rather than attempting to dominate it. The theme running throughout the book is that of being able to read different landscapes, being open to ideas, and to take inspiration from many varying sources. The breadth of his influences include sculpture, tree houses and Chicago prairies, taking in locations both wild and gardened. Journeying from New Zealand to Japan, via Thames-side barge gardens, he focuses on the 'spirit' or 'sense of place' generated by the geography, history, architecture, aspect, and native flora of a particular site: the starting point of this gifted designer when embarking on any new project. Far from being a traditional gardening publication, this book expands the genre - inviting us to see gardening in a different light - through the eyes of one of its most talented practitioners.

Author : Peg Streep
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1930722249

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Spiritual Gardening by Peg Streep Pdf

Explores the creation of a garden sanctuary with practical advice on plant selection, color, creating pathways and gates, and sharing the space with wildlife.

Author : Trisha Dixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 0642279705

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Spirit of the Garden by Trisha Dixon Pdf

Gardens can be formal or wild, serene or ostentatious, native or exotic, colourful or monochrome --according to Trisha Dixon, if we like a person, we will probably like their garden In a series of written reflections, interwoven with her evocative, painterly photographs, Trisha explores the relationship that exists between ourselves, our gardens and the natural landscape. Beyond the design and the plants, there is the feel of the garden, which captures the heart from the moment you enter a landscape and stays with you long after you have left. In a chapter on Gardens of the Mind, Trisha explores how artists, thinkers and writers have acknowledged and found value in the spirit of gardens and landscapes. Socrates found truth and beauty beyond Athens' city walls in a sacred grove. Closer to home, Jorn Utzon, designer of Sydney's Opera House sought inspiration and solace in a sandstone beach cave and Arthur Boyd experienced the Shoalhaven as a Wagnerian opera or a Mozart symphony. In Our Ancient Land, Trisha writes about landscapes full of stories, songlines and tracks. She welcomes the shift away from an Anglocentric approach to landscape design to one that shows an intimate engagement with the spirit of place, an acknowledgement of the Aboriginal history and mythology embedded in the land. This is not just to be found in the ancient heart of the country. In Melbourne's Royal Park, for example, bounded by noisy traffic and high-rise buildings, landscape designer Gordon Ford has created a bush pool that you'd feel fortunate to find in the interior of the Kimberley. Her message is the need to understand and respect the environment in our garden making. By approaching nature with humility, rather than a desire to control it, we can make our gardens places of beauty and peace, which nurture body and soul. She explains different approaches to garden design, exploring the teachings of landscape architects and designers of renown. And she frames this in the context of a harsh and changing climate that we need to embrace. Full-colour photographs show the golden glow of seed heads, a Eucalypt reflected in a still pool, magnificent angophoras and mossy outcrops in an escarpment garden on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Here is Annie Snodgrass' Jilba garden in Young, bursting with a Mediterranean palette of greens, purples and white. Here is Philip Cox's South Coast retreat, showing a total harmony of landscape and understated, rustic architecture.

Author : Kathy Roy
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781532074714

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Lessons from Nature by Kathy Roy Pdf

With our fast-paced, modern lifestyles, we often overlook the gifts nature offers. When we slow down, listen, and notice the natural world around us, we discover wisdom, guidance, and insight that can be applied to our everyday living. Many have described nature as a great teacher. When you look closely into nature, you encounter sacredness, mystery, awe and wonder. In Lessons from Nature, author Kathy Roy shares reflections and life lessons learned from observing the natural world. This compilation offers a treasure of inspiration and guidance for the heart and soul. “Lyrical and charming, Lessons from Nature, is a special book that will ignite magic in your life. Filled with the wisdom of wind, light, fire, and water, once you’ve finished this little gem, you’ll never see the natural world (or yourself) in the same way again.” —Cheryl Richardson, author of Waking Up in Winter

Author : Rumi
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612832210

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Rumi's Little Book of Life by Rumi Pdf

From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic. Rumi's Little Book of Life is a beautiful collection of 196 poems by Rumi, previously unavailable in English. Translated by native Persian speakers, Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin, this collection will appeal to Rumi lovers everywhere. This collection of mystical poetry focuses on one of life's core issues: coming to grips with the inner life. During the course of life, each of us is engaged on an inner journey. Rumi's Little Book of Life is a guidebook for that journey. The poetry is a companion for those who consciously enter the inner world to explore the gardens within--out of the everyday "world of dust"--through an ascending hierarchy that restores one's soul to the heart; the heart of the spirit; and in finding spirit, transcending all.

Author : Martha Brookes Hutcheson
Publisher : University of Massachusetts Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1952620023

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The Spirit of the Garden by Martha Brookes Hutcheson Pdf

Martha Brookes Hutcheson (1871-1959) was one of the first American women landscape architects to receive professional training. Hutcheson considered fine landscape design an instrument of social change and was inspired to write The Spirit of the Garden (1923) by a Progressive Era zeal. Hutcheson's designs include Maudslay State Park in Newburyport, Massachusetts; the Longfellow National Historic Site in Cambridge; and Bamboo Brook Conservation Center in Gladstone, New Jersey--all now open to the public.

Author : Joe Martin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781469165745

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Spirit Garden by Joe Martin Pdf

On SPIRIT GARDEN: "In Spirit Garden, poet-scholar-playwright Joe Martin sings ecstatically of the One, the hidden integrity of opposites & the living mystery of existence. He not only fuses Sufi, Buddhist & Jewish paths in a troubadour's transcendence both timeless & time-bound, his thirty poems share the page with Enrique Castanon's haunting figures which shift foreground and background to meta-illustrate the gestalt of Martin's vision." Kirpal Gordon, author, Giant Steps Press blog On FOREIGNERS: "[An] absurdist mind grenade... Joe Martin's first novel paints this neo-European shadow landscape with panache a gifted American writer." Richard Peabody, Editor, Gargoyle On RUMI'S MATHNAVI: A Stage Adaptation "Absolutely remarkable and memorable lifting the veils one after another." Lida Saeedian, co-translator of The Pocket Rumi On PARABOLA: SHORTER FICTIONS "...through the tightly structured geometry of this metaphorically rich [work is a] recognition of the search we undertake to fi x a place for ourselves and try to make sense of a confusing, alienating and often combative world." Cheryl Pallant, High Performance

Author : Jennifer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781465326652

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Spirit Garden by Jennifer Pdf

Author : Thomas Doyle
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595381197

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The Spirit Garden by Thomas Doyle Pdf

Malaya in 1905 was a part of the vast British Empire. Inspector Briscoe felt his routine temporary assignment there a wonderful opportunity for an exotic honeymoon until murder intervened and Evan and Celia find themselves drawn into the strange affair at French's Station. What appeared to be a simple, but deadly, dispute between two Tamil laborers soon evolves into a maelstrom of lust, greed, jealousy and hatred. The centerpiece of this drama rests with the mistress of French's Station, a half-caste of exquisite beauty with the manipulative powers of a Delilah. The Briscoes find that beneath the soft-petaled hibiscus and frangipani the deadly serpent lurks, and the same gritty human passions exist in this tropical Eden as in the slums of gray London.

Author : Charles Plante
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781257763603

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Spirit Garden by Charles Plante Pdf

Author : Georgina Reid
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781604699647

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The Planthunter by Georgina Reid Pdf

An exciting and refreshing call to arms, The Planthunter is a new generation of gardening book for a new generation of gardener that encourages readers to fall in love with the natural world by falling in love with plants.

Author : Bill Noble
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781643260280

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Spirit of Place by Bill Noble Pdf

“Delve into this beautiful book. You’ll come away sharing his passion for the beauty that gardens bring into our lives.” —Sigourney Weaver, environmentalist, actor, trustee of New York Botanical Garden How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of place? In Spirit of Place, Bill Noble—a lifelong gardener, and the former director of preservation for the Garden Conservancy—helps gardeners answer these questions by sharing how they influenced the creation of his garden in Vermont. Throughout, Noble reveals that a garden is never created in a vacuum but is rather the outcome of an individual’s personal vision combined with historical and cultural forces. Sumptuously illustrated, this thoughtful look at the process of garden-making shares insights gleaned over a long career that will inspire you to create a garden rich in context, personal vision, and spirit.

Author : Cyndi Brannen
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781633411968

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Entering Hekate's Garden by Cyndi Brannen Pdf

A guide to plant spirit ritual and witchcraft, with practical instruction on the use of botanicals especially associated with the beloved goddess Hekate and her daughters Circe and Medea. Bringing pharmakeia (the practice of plant spirit witchcraft) into contemporary times, Entering Hekate’s Garden merges historical knowledge with modern techniques. In it, author Cyndi Brannen offers her extensive insight into Hekatean ritual and witchcraft and especially its application to the Green World. The book features detailed monographs dedicated to 39 plants ranging from the esoteric such as aconite, American mandrake, and damiana to the accessible including bay laurel, dandelion, fennel, garlic, juniper, and lavender. This book blends traditional methods with the author's personal approach, emphasizing her understanding of plant spirits as allies in the witch’s journey. It includes a new taxonomy for interpreting plant energies, methods for creating new correspondences, the importance of layering, using botanicals in spells, rituals, altars, and more, as well as ways to develop meaningful relationships with the pharmakoi (master plant spirits). Poetry, petitions, and musings about pharmakeia are woven throughout. Entering Hekate’s Garden takes readers deep into the mystical world of botanical witchery in a way no other book has before.

Author : Elizabeth Andrew
Publisher : Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558964096

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Swinging on the Garden Gate by Elizabeth Andrew Pdf

A woman's coming-of-age journey through the rugged landscape of Wales to the reflective quiet of a retreat center. Along the way she questions and explores the depth of her Methodist faith as she comes to terms with her bisexual identity.

Author : Norris Brock Johnson
Publisher : Stone Bridge Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781611725261

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Tenryu-ji by Norris Brock Johnson Pdf

This illustrated study of Tenryuji, ranked number one among the five great Zen temples of Kyoto and a major destination for tourism and worship, weaves together history, design, culture, and personal reflection to reveal the inner workings of a great spiritual institution. Looking at Tenryuji's present as a mirror to its past, and detailing the famous pond and rockwork composition by renowned designer Muso Soseki, Norris Brock Johnson presents the first full-length "biography" of a Zen temple garden. Norris Brock Johnson is a professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and has been teaching and writing about Japanese temple gardens for over twenty years.