A Full Life in a Small Place and Other Essays from a Desert Garden - Softcover

Bowers, Janice Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816513570 ISBN 13: 9780816513574

Publisher: University of Arizona Press, 1992

Synopsis

The frustrations and pleasures of gardening are evident; its implications for life are more subtle, lurking under a leaf or buried in a compost pile. Janice Emily Bowers senses these implications, and communicates them as only a fine writer can. In A Full Life in a Small Place, she shows how backyard gardening opens up a broader appreciation of both life and living. Her observations on organic gardening inspire further meditations on nature and wildlife, and demonstrate how gardens both complicate and enrich our lives. In their entirety, these sixteen essays ask how we shall live, and recognize that "before we can determine how, we need to find out why."

About this title

From the Back Cover:

My three-year-old garden is a small, suburban plot located squarely in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. The location is crucial because, as every gardener knows, climate and soil determine what kinds of gardens we shall have--whether green lawns and flourishing rose beds or gravel paths and thrifty cacti.

About the Author:

Janice Emily Bowers is a botanist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Tucson.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0816513570
• ISBN 13: 9780816513574
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178