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Published
Reaktion Books, September 2025
ISBN
9781836390282
Format
Hardcover, 320 pages
Dimensions
23.4cm × 15.6cm

The Green Fuse Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

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Dig deep into our powerful connection with gardens across media and realms of human experience from music to philosophy, painting to religion.

Why do interiors of houses mimic nature the wallpapers and curtains, flowers in vases, a vaporiser in the bathroom? Why do we so often connect our childhoods with gardens? Why has the myth of a lost Eden been so ubiquitous and so formative?

The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens explores our deep-rooted impulses to create gardens, examining them through the lenses of history, religion, nostalgia and myth. It connects gardens with the other arts painting, music, literature and theatre and contemplates their intellectual and philosophical significance. Blending lyrical reflections with research, it o ers an unusually wide-ranging and thoughtful perspective on gardens and why we make them. It will be ideal for all readers interested in gardening and its cultural implications.

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