The Slow Garden: Gardening as Deceleration

Much more than a hobby or a leisure activity, gardening is for many gardeners a way of creating a place that escapes our contemporary culture of speed. As a counterpart to acceleration that strongly defines the late modern human condition, resulting in feelings of business, stress and haste, the gar...

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Subtitles:"Gardening as Social-Spiritual Practice. Special Issue Edited by Johan Roeland"
Main Author: Roeland, Johan Hendrikus 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of North Carolina Press 2023
In: Cross currents
Year: 2023, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 420-426
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Summary:Much more than a hobby or a leisure activity, gardening is for many gardeners a way of creating a place that escapes our contemporary culture of speed. As a counterpart to acceleration that strongly defines the late modern human condition, resulting in feelings of business, stress and haste, the garden offers a slow zone in which a regime of time operates that differs from the regime of clock time that dominates everyday life. Gardening thus offers an opportunity to find balance in an accelerating world.
ISSN:1939-3881
Contains:Enthalten in: Cross currents
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a923593