Reconnect with nature from the ground up and nurture not only your garden but your soul.Theres a lot of gardening advice out there. But none that invites you to think about how to be while youre in your garden. With increasingly busy lives yet another list of chores seems like the last thing we need when it comes to our own practice of selfcare and relaxation. After all arent these the things we wanted to escape to the garden for in the first place What if there was a more lowintervention way to garden some reciprocal arrangement through which both you and your soil get fed with minimum fuss effort and guilt on your part and the maximum measure of healthy organic growth for your gardenIn To Stand and Stare Andrew Timothy OBrien weaves together strands of botany philosophy and mindfulness to form an ecological narrative suffused with practical gardening knowhow. Informed by a deep understanding and appreciation of natural processes OBrien encourages the reader to think from the ground up as we follow the pattern of a plants growth through the season roots shoots and fruits while advocating an increased awareness of our surroundings.