Growing Myself: A Spiritual Journey Through Gardening

by Judith Handelsman

Presents a holistic approach to gardening and self-knowledge, emphasizing the gardener as nurturing figure rather than manipulator, and explores ancient and current teachings about the relationships between plants and people

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Memoir, Spirituality

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Martha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just love!

[Laurla2]

a quaint book with some good points. skimmed about half of it. she makes a good point that being in the garden is a good way of being mindful, being in the moment. points out that studies have shown that alzheimers patients who are placed in a garden all day are no longer violent. and that european sanitariums incorporated time in their gardens as an essential part of the cure, in the not so distant past.

[Qin · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Caring for a plant and watching it grow contains within it all the intricate possibilities and paradox of the entire universe.”