Sanctuary: Gardening for the Soul [Hardcover]

Erin Fournier (Author), Dency Kane (Author, Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1999

“Each chapter is devoted to a particular aspect of a sanc-tuary garden: peace, change, passion, mystery, and contemplation....The photographs are glorious.”—The American Gardener.

 

Peaceful gardens come alive in this lushly photographed and oversized volume. Serenity is found in soothing, flowing water and the brilliant colors and mystical perfume of fragrant plants.

--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

If you like landscape or gardening books that are heavy on pretty, full-color pictures but whose text is light on substance, you'll love Sanctuary, this large-format softcover whirl through the (admittedly very pretty and substantive) garden photography of Dency Kane. It's organized into sections with such soft-focus headings as "Peace," "Change," "Passion," "Mystery," and "Contemplation." That should tip you off to the tone of the copy that runs through here, which--with the exception of captions that identify various flora--brings very little insight to the images and, if you haven't completely discounted it after a few pages, takes on the inane droning quality of Jack Handy's "Deep Thoughts" meditation spots on Saturday Night Live. ("You can't be noisy in a growing house--it has the sacred quality of a library," goes one such morsel of page-filler. "Listen only for the gentle creep of growing limbs.") But again, the pictures are lovely, and not without their bounty of inspirational ideas for gardeners. --Timothy Murphy --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Friedman/Fairfax Pub (October 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567997910
• ISBN-13: 978-1567997910
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 10.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,960,977 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book that inspires the inner heart and delights the eye, March 28, 2000

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Cathy (Des Moines, Iowa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sanctuary: Gardening for the Soul (Hardcover)

It is rare to find a book that is conceptualized by the photograpber, with writers chosen to add the written word to enhance the beauty of the photography. Dency Kane has a keen eye and a remarkable sense of aesthetics. While one may first think of cool, lush green gardens as the basis of sanctuary, Dency shows how the vibrancy of a tulip or a bird-of-paradise flower-seen up close-can can induce a sense of tranquility or sanctuary as well as the full-blown garden. Her photogrqaphy, juxtaposed with the lyrical text, invites us to explore and celebrate the microcosm that surrounds us. She invokes the beauty in things like a dead zinnia equally with that of a dewy rose.

The book is handsome enough to be a coffee table book, inspiring enough to be a garden book, and so well writen and photograpbed that it makes great reading-anytime.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Award Winner, September 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Sanctuary: Gardening for the Soul (Hardcover)

This book won the Quill and Trowel Award of Excellence for Photography given by the Garden Writers Association of America for the Year 2000, tantamount to the Academy Awards for Garden Writers! The photography is truly exceptional.