‘The wisest book I’ve read for many years … Much more than a gardening book, much more than a guide to mental health … Hugely recommended’ Stephen FryTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020How can gardening relieve stress and help us look after our mental health? What lies behind the restorative power of the natural world?In a powerful combination of contemporary neuroscience, psychoanalysis and brilliant storytelling, The Well Gardened Mind investigates the magic that many gardeners have known for years – working with nature can radically transform our health, wellbeing and confidence.With illuminating stories of how people struggling with stress, depression, trauma and addiction can change their lives, this inspiring and wise book of science, insight and anecdote – now translated into fifteen languages – shows how our understanding of nature and its restorative powers is only just beginning to flower.
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Sue Stuart-Smith. The Well Gardened Mind
THE WELL GARDENED MIND. Rediscovering Nature in the Modern World. Sue Stuart-Smith
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
1. BEGINNINGS
2. GREEN NATURE: HUMAN NATURE
3. SEEDS AND SELF-BELIEF
4. SAFE GREEN SPACE
5. BRINGING NATURE TO THE CITY
6. ROOTS
7. FLOWER POWER
8. RADICAL SOLUTIONS
9. WAR AND GARDENING
10. THE LAST SEASON OF LIFE
11. GARDEN TIME
12. VIEW FROM THE HOSPITAL
13. GREEN FUSE
PICTURE SECTION
NOTES ON SOURCES. SELECTED GENERAL SOURCES ON NATURE, GARDENS AND HEALTH
CHAPTER 1: BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER 2: GREEN NATURE: HUMAN NATURE
CHAPTER 3: SEEDS AND SELF-BELIEF
CHAPTER 4: SAFE GREEN SPACE
CHAPTER 5: BRINGING NATURE TO THE CITY
CHAPTER 6: ROOTS
CHAPTER 7: FLOWER POWER
CHAPTER 8: RADICAL SOLUTIONS
CHAPTER 9: WAR AND GARDENING
CHAPTER 10: THE LAST SEASON OF LIFE
CHAPTER 11: GARDEN TIME
CHAPTER 12: VIEW FROM THE HOSPITAL
CHAPTER 13: GREEN FUSE
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
About the Author
About the Publisher
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For Tom
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I sowed some sunflowers in the greenhouse that day. When I planted the seedlings out a month or so later, I thought some of them might not make it; the largest looked hopeful, but the others seemed straggly and exposed out of doors. I watched with satisfaction their growing upwards, gradually getting stronger, although I still felt they needed looking out for. Then, their growth took off and my attention moved to other more vulnerable seedlings.
I see gardening as a reiteration; I do a bit then nature does her bit, then I respond to that, and so it goes on, not unlike a conversation. It isn’t whispers or shouts or talk of any kind, but in this to-and-fro there is a delayed and sustained dialogue. I have to admit that I am sometimes the slow one to respond and can go a little quiet on it all, so it is good to have plants that can survive some neglect. And if you do take time away, the intrigue on your return is all the greater, like finding out what someone’s been up to in your absence.
