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The Virtues of Gardening
In Dan O'Brien, Gardening: Cultivating Wisdom. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 11–25 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: What Counts as a Garden How Gardening Improves the Land How Gardening Improves Us Notes.
the good life, gardens and their fundamental role ‐ in living “the good life” and developing virtues virtues of gardening gardening activity ‐ improving people and land, helping in nurturing plants gardening, improving the moral character of those engaging in it definition of garden ‐ enclosed or demarcated outside space with living plants notion of a good garden ‐ via examination of what is good about gardening dominant discourses, on protecting wild nature from human interference three gardening activities ‐ improving gardens objectively garden as quasi‐ecosystem – mulching, weeding and composting patience, a quality nurtured in gardening ‐ involvement and the outer fruits of the involvement
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