Download or read book Gardening Your Life written by Heidi Vermeer-Quist and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life in the Garden written by Penelope Lively and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Booker Prize winner and national bestselling author, reflections on gardening, art, literature, and life Penelope Lively takes up her key themes of time and memory, and her lifelong passions for art, literature, and gardening in this philosophical and poetic memoir. From the courtyards of her childhood home in Cairo to a family cottage in Somerset, to her own gardens in Oxford and London, Lively conducts an expert tour, taking us from Eden to Sissinghurst and into her own backyard, traversing the lives of writers like Virginia Woolf and Philip Larkin while imparting her own sly and spare wisdom. "Her body of work proves that certain themes never go out of fashion," writes the New York Times Book Review, as true of this beautiful volume as of the rest of the Lively canon. Now in her eighty-fourth year, Lively muses, "To garden is to elide past, present, and future; it is a defiance of time."
Download or read book Gardening Life written by Lee May and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays about May's own garden, other gardens he has visited, and people he has met through gardening.
Download or read book Beatrix Potter s Gardening Life written by Marta McDowell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated and filled with quotations from her books, letters, and journals, Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life is essential reading for all who know and cherish Beatrix Potter and her classic tales.
Download or read book Gardening Your Life written by Heidi Vermeer-Quist and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grounding written by Heidi Vermeer-Quist Psy D and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurturing and maintaining our mental health is a lot like gardening. To be successful, we need solid grounding. Without it, we are bound to live in crisis or survival modes. The good news is that God invites us into communion and growth, as our Gardener, to help us cultivate the one unique life He has given us. Heidi Vermeer-Quist leans on her professional experience as a clinical psychologist to provide simple, practical skills that point us back to our Maker, the Master Gardner, and to the Christian teachings that are scientifically proven to be effective at keeping us grounded. Through her insight and tools, readers will learn how to plant the seeds of a healthy Christian self-concept, put down roots for healthy boundaries, choose good soil for life, manage thoughts, rest and participate in the moment, balance the sun and shade of emotions, dig deep for truth in love, manage the weeds of crisis, and give thanks for the showers of blessing. Grounding: Gardening Your Life shares practical psychological skills rooted in Christian teachings, foundational to truly live and thrive on this side of heaven.
Download or read book How Plants Can Save Your Life written by Ross Cameron and published by Greenfinch. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing plants and (if we are lucky enough) creating gardens is deeply rewarding, but has also been proven to be vital for our health. Gardening helps improve our mood, relax us, take us away from our everyday problems, and promote positive emotions. It reduces anxiety and stress, delays in the onset of dementia, promotes joy, as well as improving physical health and even self-esteem. This new book explores the ways we can introduce plants into our lives and thus embrace some of the benefits the natural world provides for our well-being. Divided into 50 sections, each one highlights a plant-based activity, how this is good for your health and provides links to the underlying concept that supports health and well-being. Written by a leading scientific authority on environmental horticulture, this unique book will offer readers a wealth of ideas on planting and growing as well as explaining the latest science research behind those ideas.
Download or read book The Garden of Life written by Todd Michael Putnam and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An instant classic. The Garden of Life is entertaining, enlightening and empowering from the very first page to the last. This enchanting tale is filled with gentle wisdom and simple truths that offer crystal clear insight into what really matters in life. This is one garden that you owe it to yourself to spend time in.” —M. Johnson, New York “This book could not have come at a better time in my life. I am able to take away from this read many things that will help me throughout my life. I think the author is on to something big.” —K. Campbell, Florida “The Garden of Life captured my heart and eased my grieving soul. A must read for all who are needing a different outlook on life’s challenges with the help of a charming fable that heals your pain & enraptures your spirit.” —T. Barrett, Florida “An inspirational journey of the soul meant to be read over and over again!” —H. Normandin, New York “This book is written with the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Simple words. Easy to understand. We are all on a journey in our life. Thank you for reminding me of my own journey.” —S. Houser-Segal, Florida “Using simple yet powerful story-telling reminiscent of the great Aesop, the author provides a practical guide to creating and living a positive and purposeful life. As I journeyed along with the characters, I laughed, cried, and discovered meaningful ways to nourish relationships, deal with adversity and loss, and find focus by weeding out distractions in the garden of my own life.” —S. Baker, Florida
Download or read book A Garden Observed Cultivating a Life written by Melanie Boyer and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Backyard Parables written by Margaret Roach and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Roach has been harvesting thirty years of backyard parables-deceptively simple, instructive stories from a life spent digging ever deeper-and has distilled them in this memoir along with her best tips for garden making, discouraging all manner of animal and insect opponents, at-home pickling, and more. After ruminating on the bigger picture in her memoir And I Shall Have Some Peace There, Margaret Roach has returned to the garden, insisting as ever that we must garden with both our head and heart, or as she expresses it, with "horticultural how-to and woo-woo." In The Backyard Parables, Roach uses her fundamental understanding of the natural world, philosophy, and life to explore the ways that gardening saved and instructed her, and meditates on the science and spirituality of nature, reminding her readers and herself to keep on digging.
Download or read book Grounding written by Heidi Vermeer-Quist Psy.D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nurturing and maintaining our mental health is a lot like gardening. To be successful, we need solid grounding. Without it, we are bound to live in crisis or survival modes. The good news is that God invites us into communion and growth, as our Gardener, to help us cultivate the one unique life He has given us. Heidi Vermeer-Quist leans on her professional experience as a clinical psychologist to provide simple, practical skills that point us back to our Maker, the Master Gardner, and to the Christian teachings that are scientifically proven to be effective at keeping us grounded. Through her insight and tools, readers will learn how to plant the seeds of a healthy Christian self-concept, put down roots for healthy boundaries, choose good soil for life, manage thoughts, rest and participate in the moment, balance the sun and shade of emotions, dig deep for truth in love, manage the weeds of crisis, and give thanks for the showers of blessing. Grounding: Gardening Your Life shares practical psychological skills rooted in Christian teachings, foundational to truly live and thrive on this side of heaven.
Download or read book Seed to Dust written by Marc Hamer and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift for the gardener in your life, or for anyone who loved Late Migrations and H is for Hawk A stunning meditation on gardening and the wisdom of plants, " that rare book that will appeal to nonfiction readers everywhere. . . Candid, tender, thoughtful and absorbing."—Shelf Awareness (STARRED Review) "With chapters. . . [that] shimmer like lantern slides, lit with luminous imagery. . . Seed to Dust is an invitation to read this world as Mr. Hamer does—with a close eye to what changes, and what does not."—The Wall Street Journal Marc Hamer has nurtured the same 12-acre garden in the Welsh countryside for over two decades. The garden is vast and intricate. It’s rarely visited, and only Hamer knows of its secrets. But it’s not his garden. It belongs to his wealthy and elegant employer, Miss Cashmere. But the garden does not really belong to her, either. As Hamer writes, "Like a book, a garden belongs to everyone who sees it." In Seed to Dust, Marc Hamer paints a beautiful portrait of the garden that "belongs to everyone." He describes a year in his life as a country gardener, with each chapter named for the month he’s in. As he works, he muses on the unusual folklores of his beloved plants. He observes the creatures who scurry and hide from his blade or rake. And he reflects on his own life: living homeless as a young man, his loving relationship with his wife and children, and—now—feeling the effects of old age on body and mind. As the seasons change, Hamer also reflects on the changes he has observed in Miss Cashmere’s life from afar: the death of her husband and the departure of her children from the stately home where she now lives alone. At the book’s end, Hamer’s connection to Miss Cashmere changes shape, and new insights into relationships and the beauty and brutality of nature emerge. Just like all good books and gardens, Seed to Dust is filled with equal parts life and death, beauty and decay, and every reader will find something different to admire.
Download or read book Inner Gardening written by Diane Dreher and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're a first-time gardener or a veteran, you'll find something to inspire you in this beautifully written book that reveals the myriad ways in which working in a garden can enhance your life and deepen your connection to the world. Season by season, Diane Dreher leads you through a journey of peace and renewal. A monthly set of gardening tasks helps you plan, design, and care for your garden, along with illuminating details of gardening history, lore, and tradition. But here you'll also find ways to tend your own inner garden: how to plant seeds of ideas and dreams, weed out bad habits, and design new challenges one step at a time. Brimming with life-enhancing strategies and filled with words of wisdom that will invigorate your spirit, Inner Gardening is a book to treasure and use every day, indoors and out.
Download or read book 52 Ways to Transform Your Life written by Annabel Sutton and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 52 Ways to Transform Your Life dispenses bite-sized nuggets of wisdom, inspiration and practical help for busy people on the go. This makes it the perfect choice for those who love personal development but don’t have time to read lengthy self-help books. Week by week, from January to December, life coach Annabel Sutton offers practical ideas to open up new possibilities and help readers make positive changes in their lives. Her book contains 52 short life coaching tips that are quick to read and easy to put into practice. Find out how to:➢ Make great decisions➢ Figure out what you really want➢ Overcome procrastination and perfectionism➢ Do yourself differently➢ Feel more positive and confident The book is inspired by a number of authors including Susan Jeffers, Julia Cameron, Fiona Harrold and Mark Forster.
Download or read book Garden Maker written by Christie Purifoy and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much more than a how-to flower gardening book (though you will learn how to), Garden Maker is for those who want to grow beautiful things that reflect the glory and majesty of the Creator and bring a little bit of heaven down to earth. From the beginning God made a garden, so it’s no surprise if you feel closer to Him with your hands in the dirt and the sun on your back. There is something profoundly soul-satisfying about creating and cultivating beauty. If you long to experience more splendor in your life, you can grow some of your very own. Join kindred spirit Christie Purifoy as she helps you unearth the simple delights of growing garden flowers, from preparing and planning to creating beautiful bouquets and other arrangements. Lavishly photographed and lovingly written, this all-seasons guide invites you to discover the innumerable joys and wonders to be found in the flower garden.
Download or read book Alter Your Life written by Kathleen Hall and published by Alter Your Life. This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes like "I just don't have time" and "I'm exhausted" rule our lives today. We are overbooked, overworked and overwhelmed. Just getting done what must be done fills our days. The notion of finding the time needed to discover an intentional life seems daunting for many. But it doesn't have to be!
Download or read book Grow the Good Life written by Michele Owens and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively, passionate argument for the backyard vegetable garden, drawing on science, history, and stories from the author's garden. Our parents saw supermarkets and processed foods as the height of convenience. But nothing is more convenient than grocery shopping in the backyard. A vegetable garden offers the best defense against rising food prices, the most environmentally sound way to eat, and better exercise than any gym. It will turn anyone into a wonderful cook, since nothing tastes more vibrant than homegrown. And it can take less time every week than a trip to the supermarket. In Grow the Good Life, Michele Owens, an amateur gardener for almost two decades, makes an entertaining and persuasive case for vegetable gardens. She starts with two simple but radical ideas: Growing food on a small scale is easy, and it is absurdly rewarding. With her wry, funny, and accessible approach, Owens helps beginning gardeners overcome obstacles that keep them from planting a few seedlings every spring. She explains why dirt isn't dirty; the health benefits of growing one's own food; and that vegetable gardens are not antithetical to the frantic pace of modern life, but simple and undemanding if intelligently managed. Grow the Good Life is not just another how-to. Instead, it will teach you the true fundamentals of vegetable growing: how to fit a garden into your life and why it's worth the trouble.
