12 Lessons on Life I Learned from My Garden: Spiritual Guidance from the Vegtable Patch [Hardcover]

Vivian Elisabeth Glyck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1997

Using gardening as a metaphor for the tough decisions and unpredictable circumstances of our lives, Vivian Elisabeth Glyck shows how she learned that responding to life's challenges can be much like reacting to the problems and needs that crop up in a garden.

Editorial Reviews

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"Vivian is a hands-on gardener who, like may of us, find physical, spiritual, and emotional renewal from the garden; she knows we can tend our crops and our souls at the same time. She reminds us that gardening's compulsive pull is always toward health and wholeness." --Ann Lovejoy, author of The Year In Bloom and Further Along The Garden Path

"We're all gardeners in some part of our lives. Only what grows in each individual garden may vary. 12 Lessons on Live I Learned from My Garden illuminates the value of cultivating those things most important to us and reinforces how doing this will make our world more physically and spiritually nourishing." --Bernie S. Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Rodale Books; 1 edition (March 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875964265
• ISBN-13: 978-0875964263
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,197,596 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant book for men and women about issues we all face!, August 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: 12 Lessons on Life I Learned from My Garden: Spiritual Guidance from the Vegtable Patch (Hardcover)

12 Lessons on Life I Learned from My Garden : Spiritual Guidance from the Vegetable Patch by Vivian Elisabeth Glyck is one of those books that might bring a joyful tear in your eye. Brilliantly written. She uses real-life metaphores from her beautiful garden. Most of them are about problems I still face in my life. Most likely this woman is wiser than she might realize herself. This is no vague spiritual stuff - this is a real-life reality check, quite tough and tender.

If my friends would read this, we could change our daily lives. Not only because we change our perception of events and therefore we may project other things and events in our lives, but mainly because we actually will change our behaviour.

I started to like the book in 1997, and it is getting stronger and stronger because it is still very practical and applicable. It is as if she's talking to me. It's absolutely lovely.

Guys give it as a present to your wives or girl-friends.

Girls go and get it and read it to your man while lying together in bed.

Go out buy it, read it and it will never ever go away from your life.

Vivian you did something beautiful to the world. What's your next project?

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars So much wisdom, honesty and insight., April 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: 12 Lessons on Life I Learned from My Garden: Spiritual Guidance from the Vegtable Patch (Hardcover)

This is book is a quick read with many wonderful thoughts
that make you reflect on your life (and even on your garden).

The author's sharp truths really struck home for me. So often we
just rush through our days trying to force our lives down a
certain path. Ms. Glyck's lessons help us to step back and see
the bigger picture of what's going on in our lives and what
action we can take to help our current circumstances.

You don't have to know anything about gardening to enjoy and
benefit greatly from this beautiful little book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars gardening like life, December 31, 2010

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This review is from: 12 Lessons on Life I Learned from My Garden: Spiritual Guidance from the Vegtable Patch (Hardcover)

This is a beautiful little book that I found at a library book sale and fell in love with. I've bought several copies for friends. It is spiritual but not particularly religious so if that's what you are looking for, you may be disappointed. Any woman who is a gardener will totally "get" this book.