A (mostly) black and white couple of days in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden
One of my favourite books of the last ten years has been Robert Pogue Harrison's Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition (University of Chicago Press, 2008). As the publisher's blurb makes clear:
"Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them."
Well, for that sanctuary — after a week of frenzy and particularly unpleasant tumult — I took myself, as I so often do, down to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Here are a few photos from the last couple of days, all but two in black and white. The healing and restorative power of gardens is, truly, astonishing and for it (both the power and the garden) I am hugely grateful.
"Humans have long turned to gardens—both real and imaginary—for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them."
Well, for that sanctuary — after a week of frenzy and particularly unpleasant tumult — I took myself, as I so often do, down to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Here are a few photos from the last couple of days, all but two in black and white. The healing and restorative power of gardens is, truly, astonishing and for it (both the power and the garden) I am hugely grateful.
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