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This book begins, "I offer this blessing for you and your garden, enumerating the many virtues of gardens that we are vividly aware of their place in our lives and grateful for their existence." The text emphasizes the many profound satisfactions that gardens offer to those who make and inhabit them. It is illustrated, as are all of Poltarnees¹ books, with a rich variety of paintings including ones by Childe Hassam, Frederick Frieske, Claude Monet, Diego Rivera, Suzanne Valadon, and William Glackens. The profusion of illustration, poetic reflections and the felicitous design make this book a suitable tribute to the gardens it celebrates.
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This blessing, like the others in this series, seeks to define and illustrate the essential virtues of a matter enormously important to the life of humankind. A garden, though it is frequently simple and plain, is more than itself, for it is a workshop for our imaginations, a point of daily contact with the forces of creation, and, even in its humblest form, a repository of transcendent beauty.
Poltarness recounts for us many of the most satisfying aspects of gardens - their timelessness, their invitation to all of our senses, their restorative qualities, their silent lessons, and their need for each gardener. As usual Poltarnees has selected a lovely and unusual array of images to support each assertion, with the result that we can from these pages, sense the power of these blossoming wonders.
A Garden Blessing
A Garden Blessing,Welleran Poltarnees,Blue Lantern Books,1883211255,Essays,Gardening / Horticulture,General,Inspirational - General,Religion,Spirituality - General
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