Gardens : an essay on the human condition / Robert Pogue Harrison.

The vocation of care
Eve
The human gardener
Homeless gardens
"Mon jardin à moi"
Academos
The garden school of Epicurus
Boccaccio's garden stories
Monastic, republican, and princely gardens
A note on Versailles
On the lost art of seeing
Sympathetic miracles
The paradise divide: Islam and Christianity
Men not destroyers
The paradox of the age
Epilogue
Appendixes. From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino
"The garden," Andrew Marvell
A note on Islamic carpet gardens.