Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite

Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite
Title Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite PDF eBook
Author Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 352
Release 2013-06-29
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9401716587

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What essentially is a garden? Is it a small plot of land that we put aside to cultivate our favorite vegetables or to grow flowers for our personal enjoyment? Or is it a symbol, a mirror, a reflection of our human passions? The topic of the present volume is the mysterious ways in which Imaginatio Creatix plays within the human ingrowness in natural life, transposing dreams, nostalgias, and enchantments.

Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite

Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite
Title Gardens and the Passion for the Infinite PDF eBook
Author Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher
Pages 364
Release 2014-01-15
Genre
ISBN 9789401716598

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The View from Federal Twist

The View from Federal Twist
Title The View from Federal Twist PDF eBook
Author James Golden
Publisher
Pages 224
Release 2022-03
Genre Gardening
ISBN 9781999734572

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Federal Twist is set on a ridge above the Delaware River in western New Jersey. It is a naturalistic garden that has loose boundaries and integrates closely with the natural world that surrounds it. It has no utilitarian or leisure uses (no play areas, swimming pools, or outdoor dining) and the site is not an obvious choice for a garden (heavy clay soil, poorly drained: quick death for any plants not ecologically suited to it). The physical garden, its plants and its features, is of course an appealing and pleasant place to be but Federal Twist's real charm and significance lie in its intangible aspects: its changing qualities and views, the moods and emotions it evokes, and its distinctive character and sense of place. This book charts the author's journey in making such a garden. How he made a conscious decision not to "improve the land", planted large, competitive plants into rough grass, experimented with seeding to develop sustainable plant communities. And how he worked with light to provoke certain moods and allowed the energy of the place, chance, and randomness to have its say. Part experimental horticulturist and part philosopher, James Golden has written an important book for naturalistic and ecological gardeners and anyone interested in exploring the relationship between gardens, nature, and ourselves.

The Infinite Feast

The Infinite Feast
Title The Infinite Feast PDF eBook
Author Brian Theis
Publisher Arcadia Publishing
Pages 224
Release 2020-10-05
Genre Cooking
ISBN 1455625132

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The road that runs through all our lives, paved with treasured memories of family, food, and fun, is our infinite feast, of holidays and special occasions and all the other days in between. All generations will be glad to see these old and new recipes, such as Tomato Okra Casserole, Nanaimo Bars, Paradise Almond Chicken, and Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcakes. The book is divided seasonally, from the new year to the harvest moon, with chapters such as "The Winter Feast," "Holiday in Venice," "Patio Party," and "Silver Bells."

The Garden of Reality

The Garden of Reality
Title The Garden of Reality PDF eBook
Author Roland Faber
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 581
Release 2018-06-20
Genre Religion
ISBN 1498576249

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The Garden of Reality contemplates the relativity of religious truth, religious pluralism, transreligious discourse, postmodern cosmology, and multireligious mysticism. Its transreligious approach aims at a future multireligious, peaceful society in an ecological and cosmic context. It proposes that the future of humanity is bound to conviviality with itself and the Earth, that the deepest religious motivations of existing together are relative to one another, and that transreligious relativity is essential to the conviction of religions that their motivations, experiences, and conceptualities are meaningful, real, and true. By engaging diverse voices from poststructuralism to Sufism, Dzogchen, and philosophical Daoism, from conceptual frameworks of Christianity and Hinduism to mystical and postmodern cosmology, current cosmopolitanism, and interreligious and interspiritual discourses, but especially understudied contributions of process thought and the Bahá'í religion, this book suggests that multireligious conviviality must listen to the universal relevance of a multiplicity of minority voices. Its polyphilic pluralism affirms the mutual immanence and co-creative nature of religions and spiritualities with the universal in-sistence of divine or ultimate reality in the cosmos. Embracing a relativistic and evolutionary paradigm in an infinite cosmos of creative becoming, religions must cope with events of novelty that disturb and connect, transcend and contrast, the continuum of their truth claims, but must avoid conflict, as religious diversity is enveloped by an ever-folding landscape of ultimate reality.

Does the World Exist?

Does the World Exist?
Title Does the World Exist? PDF eBook
Author Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 934
Release 2012-12-06
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9401000476

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"Does the World exist?" There would be no reason to resurrect this question of modernity from its historical oblivion were it not for the fact that recent evolution in science and technology, impregnating culture, makes us wonder about the nature of reality, of the world we are living in, and of our status as living beings within it. Thus great metaphysical subjacent queries are forcefully revived, calling for new investigations to proceed in the light of the innumerable novel insights of science. This collection presents a wealth of material toward an elaboration of a new metaphysical groundwork of the ontopoiesis/ phenomenology of life sought to effect such investigations. The classic postulates of the metaphysics of reality, those of necessity and certainty here find a new formulation. Away from sclerotized ontological and cognitive assumptions and congenial with the views of contemporary science, the understanding of reality, of our world of life, and of ourselves within it is to be sought in the existential/ontopoietic ciphering of life (Tymieniecka).

A Passion for Plants

A Passion for Plants
Title A Passion for Plants PDF eBook
Author Suzanne Treseder
Publisher Alison Hodge Publishers
Pages 128
Release 2004
Genre Flowers
ISBN 9780906720387

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The story of the Treseder family, their nursey and plant introductions from the 19th century