The Name of the World is Garden: Quiet Practices and Things Seen by Two Passionate Gardeners

How can we not go mad in an ever more electric and mechanical world? For Patrick Genty and Alain Renouf, the garden shows us a possible path. A constantly renewed source of inspiration and wonder, the garden is a unique space for opening up to oneself and to the world, capable of facilitating reflection on one's daily life, one's actions, and their coherence. A true contemplative stroll in ten stages, The Name of the World is a Garden presents these rounded gestures, these locally crafted tools and objects, these often forgotten age-old practices that are founding new, more humane and environmentally friendly production sites. From sowing to harvesting, at the slow rhythm of natural cycles, this book, written in a simple and poetic style, invites us to pause and reconnect with our innermost being, with nature and the world around us.