Gardens

Preface
Acknowledgments                   
 
1          The Vocation of Care
2          Eve                 
3          The Human Gardener  
4          Homeless Gardens                   
5          “Mon jardin à moi”                  
6          Academos                   
7          The Garden School of Epicurus            
8          Boccaccio’s Garden Stories                 
9          Monastic, Republican, and Princely Gardens    
10        A Note on Versailles   
11        On the Lost Art of Seeing                    
12        Sympathetic Miracles   
13        The Paradise Divide: Islam and Christianity       
14        Men Not Destroyers 

15        The Paradox of the Age           
 
Epilogue          
Appendixes

1          From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio    
2          From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino                    
3          “The Garden,” Andrew Marvell                       
4          A Note on Islamic Carpet Gardens      

Notes              
Works Cited               
Index