Sanctuary: Gardening for the Soul

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Summary: A book that inspires the inner heart and delights the eye
Review: It is rare to find a book that is conceptualized by the photograpber, with writers chosen to add the written word to enhance the beauty of the photography. Dency Kane has a keen eye and a remarkable sense of aesthetics. While one may first think of cool, lush green gardens as the basis of sanctuary, Dency shows how the vibrancy of a tulip or a bird-of-paradise flower-seen up close-can can induce a sense of tranquility or sanctuary as well as the full-blown garden. Her photogrqaphy, juxtaposed with the lyrical text, invites us to explore and celebrate the microcosm that surrounds us. She invokes the beauty in things like a dead zinnia equally with that of a dewy rose.

The book is handsome enough to be a coffee table book, inspiring enough to be a garden book, and so well writen and photograpbed that it makes great reading-anytime.

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Summary: Award Winner
Review: This book won the Quill and Trowel Award of Excellence for Photography given by the Garden Writers Association of America for the Year 2000, tantamount to the Academy Awards for Garden Writers! The photography is truly exceptional.