Gardens reveal the relationship between culture and nature, yet within the substantial library of garden literature, Sacred Gardens and Landscapes is among the few to focus on what the garden means in the spirit realm...Undeniably, Sacred Gardens and Landscapes is a magnificent compendium about a subject address by few writers: the mystical dimension of gardens.
   --Dorothea Bedigian, Plant Science Bulletin

Michel Conan is the former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.

Read More by Michel Conan:

• Perspectives on Garden Histories
• Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850
• Landscape Design and Experience of Motion
• Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations
• Gardens, City Life, and Culture: A World Tour
• Performance and Appropriation: Profane Rituals in Gardens and Landscapes
• Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes
• Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture
• Baroque Garden Cultures: Emulation, Sublimation, Subversion
• Middle East Garden Traditions: Unity and Diversity
• Gardens and Cultural Change: A Pan-American Perspective
• Gardens and Imagination: Cultural History and Agency