
By Lois B. Robbins
Author of Waking Up In the Age of
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Like it or not, we're embedded in the natural
world. We might as well learn to live more
harmoniously with it. Part memoir, part how-to,
part problem-solving, Lawn Wars gives a
historical context and resources for a new
movement that is showing up across the nation.
Difficulties encountered by aspiring natural
landscapers are explored with wit and factual
information. The rich rewards of making such a
shift are described in lyrical prose as the
author tells her own story of heartache and
delight.
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PREVIEW:
The fact that so many
people are now awakening from the Cartesian
dream, which drew such a radical boundary
between us humans as “subject” and the natural
world as “object,” tells me that it might not be
too late. We are coming to realize that although
now highly autonomous and differentiated, we are
yet held lovingly in a universe that is juicy
with meaning. We are beginning to feel in our
bones, some of us, that creativity originates
not with the human, but constitutes the very
ocean in which our lives swim. We dwell within
Anima Mundi, or World Soul. It throbs within us.
. . . With this new way of being comes a more
secure place for ourselves in the scheme of
things. Out of that security grows a wedding of
knowing and acting. From it flows gratitude, and
I cannot think of a more perfect way to
experience and express gratitude than through
the practice of natural landscaping.
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