Comments on: The Morville Hours http://somanybooksblog.com/2009/06/21/the-morville-hours/ the agony and ecstasy of a reading life Sun, 27 May 2012 02:36:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Leanne Nz http://somanybooksblog.com/2009/06/21/the-morville-hours/#comment-61481 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:16:46 +0000 http://somanybooksblog.com/?p=2682#comment-61481 I’ve just finished listening to it on audio & loved it – wish to own the book now.

Love Leanne

]]> By: paula buckland http://somanybooksblog.com/2009/06/21/the-morville-hours/#comment-51447 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:41:36 +0000 http://somanybooksblog.com/?p=2682#comment-51447 Iam rereading this wonderful book and it is better the 2nd time! I loved the description of a local natural hedge maker because I want (well I have begun) to do the same in my garden in our 2nd home in mid south west France. It is an amazing place with an ancient tower and in our garden a large number of large tuffeau caves; so obviously very historic.

Interestingly there are so many places like it in France that they don’t value them quite like the english do or especially the Americans!

]]> By: Stefanie http://somanybooksblog.com/2009/06/21/the-morville-hours/#comment-45822 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:04:04 +0000 http://somanybooksblog.com/?p=2682#comment-45822 Ah Lydia, you are so kind, thank you! I am glad you are enjoying the book. I don’t think anyone who loves nature or gardening could read it and not like it!

]]> By: Lydia McCauley http://somanybooksblog.com/2009/06/21/the-morville-hours/#comment-45809 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:32:03 +0000 http://somanybooksblog.com/?p=2682#comment-45809 I’m relishing this book right now. What a lovely book it is! I found out about it from an older issue of GARDENS ILLUSTRATED (beautiful magazine) from our local library.

I appreciate what you wrote in your review:

Gardening makes a person slow down, pay attention; brings one close to the earth, close to life and death, to the cycle of the seasons and what goes on in each. The garden forces you to work on nature’s time. One cannot rush the growing of a tree or the blooming of a flower (you can force a flower to bloom out of its natural time but it will still bloom at its own speed). Hours pass differently in a garden and the gardener must give herself over to it, relinquish control. When one does that, what a change happens.

This is good advice for Life!

Lydia McCauley

]]> By: Dorothy W. http://somanybooksblog.com/2009/06/21/the-morville-hours/#comment-45593 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:33:37 +0000 http://somanybooksblog.com/?p=2682#comment-45593 This sounds wonderful! I love the way it gets you to think about your own place — surely Swift would be pleased! I also like the description of how gardening changes you — the way you think about the land and about time. That’s a sign of something really worth doing, if it can slowly influence one’s way of thinking, in good ways.

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