{"product_id":"cultivating-delight-a-natural-history-of-my-garden-isbn-9780060199869","title":"Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Ackerman has done it again … one of the most buoyant and enjoyable garden reads … uplifting, intelligent.” — \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the mode of her bestseller \u003cem\u003eA Natural History of the Senses,\u003c\/em\u003e Diane Ackerman celebrates the sensory pleasures of her garden through the seasons.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in sensuous, lyrical prose, \u003cem\u003eCultivating Delight\u003c\/em\u003e is a hymn to nature and to the pleasure we take in it.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003eIn the mode of her esteemed bestseller\u003cem\u003e A Natural History of the Senses,\u003c\/em\u003e Diane Ackerman's new book, \u003cem\u003eCultivating Delight\u003c\/em\u003e celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAckerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in the profusion of roses, offering sugar water to a hummingbird or studying the slug, she welcomes the unexpected drama and extravagance as well as the sanctuary her garden offers. She chronicles instances of violence in nature but also intuits loneliness and desire in the clamor of male crickets in the spring. And there is wonderment and marvel as she happens upon a tiny frog asleep inside the petals of a tulip. Visitors to her garden range from botanical explorers of earlier centuries to the nature mystic John Muir to the brilliant British garden writer Gertrude Jekyll.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author's garden nourishes its creator, who imaginatively returns the favor and seizes privileged moments to leap from science and metaphor to meditation on the human condition. Written in sensuous, lyrical prose,\u003cem\u003e Cultivating Delight\u003c\/em\u003e is a hymn to nature and to the pleasure we take in it.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Lyrical, knowledgeable and imaginative.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Diane Ackerman takes us down the garden path with a renewed sense of awe …[and] enlightened eyes.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ackerman’s rich prose is a bridge to a world of discovery.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderstated elegance  lush language, historical and scientific nuggets, artful digressions and apt quotations.  Ackermans book reminds us that we too can make our paradise here and that tranquility can be achieved by contemplating the petals of a rose. - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating tour of plant mythology and fact …[Ackerman] plays both sleuth and poet.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890625933541,"sku":"NP9780060199869","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780060199869.jpg?v=1773960012","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/cultivating-delight-a-natural-history-of-my-garden-isbn-9780060199869","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}