Reviews for The Garden

The average rating for The Garden based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-05-24 00:00:00 Yvette Orozco I read most of this book while traveling from my home in Keswick Ridge to my mother's childhood home in Malden. Although I usually enjoy driving through New Brunswick's forests, its trails and minor roads jumping in and out of view, Patterson's photography and meditative prose highlighted for me the many wild plants filling ditches and highway shoulders. ""Why not take the money we spend annually to fight dandelions and, instead, use it to eliminate utility poles and transformers planted in front of beautiful cathedrals and churches or along magnificent stretches of highway?"" For the time being, removing telephone photos may be impractical, but I think Patterson means here that the normal can sometimes be the spectacular. Why rush to go somewhere significant when what is significant is here, present in abundance. (www.flickr.com/ocawnad)

Review # 2 was written on 2011-07-19 00:00:00 Josh Neil Beautiful photography and beautifully written. Not so much a how-to book on photography but more the musings of one who is finely attuned to nature and himself.