The Morville Hours

The Morville Hours is a meditation on gardening, history, one's place and time. It is beautifully written. It's not a gardening book but a gardening book of the soul and place. I love some of her descriptions of breathing the air, and tilling the soil that generations have breathed and tilled. Perhaps we are too solution conscious to stop, stand still, and look at the snow by moonlight. If you like these things, I highly recommend this book to you. I am buying 5 as gifts. I would recommend the following: Clear Mind, Wild HeartThe Elegance of the HedgehogThe Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden][[ASIN:0312427808 The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel

I'm currently reading it, and I absolutely love it. I can see where it might not be everyone's cup of tea, but I find her soliloquies on gardens, animal life, history, the liturgical year and a million other things enchanting. It's a slow, meditative book, very thoughtful and intelligent. It reminds me a little of 'The Cloister Walk', which is of a similar meditative bent.