Gardens: an essay on the human condition

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.