Gardens an essay on the human condition - Harrison, Robert Pogue (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index
The vocation of care -- Eve -- The human gardener -- Homeless gardens -- "Mon jardin à moi" -- Academos -- The garden school of Epicurus -- Boccaccio's garden stories -- Monastic, republican, and princely gardens -- A note on Versailles -- On the lost art of seeing -- Sympathetic miracles -- The paradise divide: Islam and Christianity -- Men not destroyers -- The paradox of the age -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio -- From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino -- "The garden," Andrew Marvell -- A note on Islamic carpet gardens