Posts Tagged ‘Garden Visit’
Rilke and Lou Salomé in Tolstoy’s Garden (1899)
This botanical history post was featured on The Daily Gardener podcast: Click here to see the complete show notes for this episode. May 19, 1899 Lou Andreas Salomé (books about this person) and Rainer Maria Rilke (books about this person) went to see Leo Tolstoy (books about this person), hoping for mentorship; what they found…
Read MoreDr. Oliver Sacks on the Power of Visiting Gardens: Places to Find History, Lessons, and Healing
“The garden has affected me and does affect me in various ways; it’s not just the pleasure of walking around but [also] the very special virtues of the library and the museum and the fact that, in some ways, this is a university as well as a garden.” September 19, 2019 I recently had the…
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