THE WORLD IS IN MY GARDEN
Chris Maser
With Zane Maser · Using Gardening Issues to Illuminate Universal Concerns
The garden, since first conceived, has been a microcosm of the world outside. Chris Maser shows how every issue that comes up as a choice for the gardener comes up in a greater way in the world around. By the choices the gardener makes, he or she is influencing how the world-socially as well as environmentally-unfolds. The choices are person makes are important.
Zane Maser, another participant in the garden, takes this further, and treats it a place in which we can go within and find peace.
This book is magnificently re-empowering-as well as packed with information. We also become very attached to the central character: the authors' own domestic garden, humble but well-kept.
September 2003 · ISBN 0-9545389-0-0
186 x 123 mm · illustrated & photographs & line drawings · paperback · 288 pages
REVIEWS OF THIS BOOK
This book some three hundred pages long, is ideal reading for the ecologically-orientated gardener. The authors provide us with many valuable lessons in how to work with Nature. They feel strongly that we are a part of Nature and stress that we are equal to, but different from, other species. The concept of trusteeship is central to the authors and they attack the notion of absolute property rights, citing Locke. There are some interesting ruminations on death and speculations on peace. Buddha, Lao-Tse, St Teresa of Avila and Einstein are among the many great thinkers and mystics discussed.
Michael Taylor, in New Vision
The garden has often been likened to a microcosm of the world outside. Chris Maser aims to show how each choice and decision made by the gardener influences the world outside, socially and environmentally.
Yoga and Health, April 2005
"In a world awash in holistic self-help books this one stands out because of Chris Maser's pedigree as a world-renowned ecologist."
Gary McFarland, BookPeople's Book of the Day.
"Here is a book that says: 'Come ye apart a while' into the inner garden and take a closer look at some of our Western values. You will come back from this journey of consciousness with some changed viewpoints."
E. C., reader
"Unlike many other scientists, who spend their energy on their science and keep their own counsel, in this book Maser clearly and articulately applies his technical knowledge to his place in the world.
And, happily, he shares his philosophy with coherence and forthrightness. He's been thinking about humanity's place in the natural order of things for as long as he's been gardening."
Bill Monroe, The Oregonian
