{"product_id":"philosophy-for-gardeners-by-kate-collyns-9780711268210","title":"Philosophy for Gardeners","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden. Gardening is an innately thoughtful as well as practical pastime: planning ahead, imagining how plants will grow, deciding what will make a good garden, wondering at the beauty of flowers and noticing how ecosystems work. This delightful and engaging collection of essays illustrates how many philosophical ideas arise naturally in gardeners' everyday work. Growers by their nature are in fact already philosophers:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eexistentialists who try to live and work by their own rules in a garden;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003estoics who put up with slug damage again and again, and try to work in harmony with nature;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eand practical quantum scientists who witness incredible processes going on in plant cells beneath the ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Gardeners,\u003c\/i\u003e Kate Collyns uses aspects of gardening to introduce and explore a range of philosophical ideas and schools of thought; cultivating a greater understanding and appreciation of intriguing concepts, propagated from science, evolution and aesthetics through to politics, economics and ethics. Broken into four sections, Soil, Growth, Harvest and Cycles, each section explores questions of philosophy through the lens of the garden. A fascinating read, this book is as perfect for students of philosophy as it is for gardeners, filled with thought-provoking reflections on life, being and existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47647706382572,"sku":"9780711268210","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c43c72da8348c01dbd18e8ab9f225a16.jpg?v=1779232590","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/philosophy-for-gardeners-by-kate-collyns-9780711268210","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}