In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon Young explores one of literature's most intimate relationships: authors and their gardens. For some, the garden provided a retreat from workaday labor; for others, solitude's quiet counsel. For all, it played a philosophical role: giving their ideas a new life. What unites the authors―Proust, Woolf, Colette, Rousseau, Orwell, Emily Dickinson, Kazantzakis―portrayed in Philosophy in the Garden is not any one ideal,...