Robert Pogue Harrison

more thoughts about gardens

by James
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I quoted recently from Robert Pogue Harrison’s recent Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition. Here are a couple more passages that I liked. …[I]n the final analysis we must always remember that nature has its own order and that… Read More »more thoughts about gardens

humility 101

by James
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Most of [Czech author Karel] Čapek’s commentators consider The Gardener’s Year a minor work, but as Verlyn Klinkenborg remarks in the introduction to the Modern Library English edition of 2002, “most students of Čapek believe gardening is a subset of… Read More »humility 101