Inner Gardening: A Seasonal Path to Inner Peace

by Diane Dreher

Whether you're a first-time gardener or a veteran, you'll find something to inspire you in this beautifully written book that reveals the myriad ways in which working in a garden can enhance your life and deepen your connection to the world. Season by season, Diane Dreher leads you through a journey of peace and renewal. A monthly set of gardening tasks helps you plan, design, and care for your garden, along with illuminating details of gardening history, lore, and tradition. But here you'll also find ways to tend your own inner how to plant seeds of ideas and dreams, weed out bad habits, and design new challenges one step at a time. Brimming with life-enhancing strategies and filled with words of wisdom that will invigorate your spirit, Inner Gardening is a book to treasure and use every day, indoors and out.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Diane Dreher, Ph.D., is the author of the best-selling The Tao of Inner Peace and her newest book, Pathways to Inner Peace. She has a doctorate in Renaissance literature from UCLA and a Master's degree in Counseling from Santa Clara University. She is professor emeritus at Santa Clara University and lecturer in the Positive Psychology Academy in the UK. A positive psychology and creativity coach, researcher, teacher and writer, Diane lives in the San Francisco Bay area."

Reviews

[Cynthia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has two major components: basic "how to manage a garden" advice and not quite so basic "how to balance your life" advice. I found the garden advice to be simplistic and too specific for the author's garden in its particular ecological zone. On the other hand, I really enjoyed the life advice, including the numerous quotes. For me, the best part was how Dreher related her life advice to gardening in general. This is going to be a good book to dip back into periodically when I'm feeling a little stagnant in life.

[Juliette Morris Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful book that is more of a 'flip open and read this page for insight' type of book than a cover-to-cover read. Although it's meant to be read that way. Mainly because it provides insights and ideas on the light of the seasons, the soil of the seasons, etc. and how they reflect on our inner selves. I bought this for my Mother for Mother's Day. It's the kind of book to read in a hammock on a slow summer afternoon.