I love this book; it is glorious and appreciative and curious and full of delight. “Gardening has an embracing quality in that it colors the way you look at the world: everything that grows, and the way in which it grows, now catches your attention; the gardening eye assesses, queries, is sometimes judgmental—quite opinionated, gardeners. The physical world has a new eloquence” (186). And it certainly does, after reading this book.