{"product_id":"9780854481903","title":"Gardens of Heaven and Earth","description":"A unique and discursive history of gardens and their significance across a wide range of cultures, \u003ci\u003eGardens of Heaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e explores the meanings behind our efforts to maintain, manipulate and ornament our environment. Drawing particular inspiration from the work of the eighteenth-century Swedish philosopher and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg, this book explores the symbolism of gardens and their use—by Swedenborg and by others—as a metaphor for a model of heaven.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGardens of Heaven and Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrical study that investigates the nature of experience, the limitations of language and ideas of the garden as both a relationship to be experienced and as a symbolic language to be read. Discussing gardens in relation to the life and writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, this short work brings a fresh perspective to the roles that gardens have played in delighting and sustaining the human condition throughout the ages.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This volume is augmented by three black-and white-illustrations and also contains a chronology of Swedenborg’s life and works, an inventory of Swedenborg’s own garden in Stockholm, a bibliography, and an index.","brand":"Swedenborg Foundation Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47131755872496,"sku":"9780854481903","price":21.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780854481903_p0.jpg?v=1763755884","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780854481903","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}