Plato taught while walking and his Academy was in a sacred forest. Aristotle gave his talks in a park and his school, the Lyceum, was named for its shady grove of trees. Cultured Romans came to the gardens to talk and study. Gardens can console, calm and uplift, but they can also bewilder and provoke, and this is the philosophical value that has been perpetuated into the contemporary era.
This fascinating work explores the intimate relationship of great historical figures – among others, Proust, Rousseau, Orwell and Dickinson – with the plants, trees and flowers they loved so much (and sometimes detested so much) and reveals the deep thoughts that went into them. outdoors. Jane Austen sought the solace of perfection between the philadelphus and the peony of her country house. Leonard Woolf’s Frozen Apple Trees suggested just the opposite: a glimpse of the world’s precarious brutality. The scandalous French author Colette discovered contemplative peace in roses. Years later, Jean-Paul Sartre described the nausea caused by a chestnut tree: an existentialist cry that rallied a generation.
Gardens are a manifestation of nature as well as a metaphor for human nature, hence its philosophical essence and the beauty of this book.

Format: Hardcover
Size: 14.5 x 23cm
Extent: 240 pp
language: Spanish
Date of Publication: 21 junio 2023
Publisher: Ariel
ISBN: 978-84-344-3650-3