"Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening" manages to be both an inspiring and practical guide as a celebration of the process of gardening. It is one of our new favorites!"
RJ Julia Bookseller
"From wishing and hoping to weeding and hoeing, Sorin enthusiastically guides gardeners every step of the way, helping them to learn how to make choices and sharpen skills, celebrate successes and embrace changes from a more creative perspective."
Carol Haggas for The American Library Association
"Sorin thinks the act of gardening is superbly suited to unleash the creative spirit she thinks people are holding in check. As such, it is a departure among gardening books, perhaps the first publication on planting to boast a foreword by a psychologist, the noted Erika Fromm, with whom Sorin studied at The University of Chicago. Sorin doesn't start her text with questions about what kind of soil you have, or whether your garden enjoys eastern sunshine. She begins with unexpected musings such as the nature of the reader's creativity. Can you cook? she asks. Did you design your wardrobe in an interesting way? Sorin sees the garden as an extension of the gardener, and "Digging Deep" is devoted to coaxing the unique statement out of the person, not the soil. As such, it is more self-help book than gardening text."
Retha Oliver for San Antonio Express News
"For an artist, it's an empty canvas; for a writer, a blank page; but for a homeowner a barren landscape can be an equally daunting proposition. As with any creative endeavor, filling a space with beauty is a task few approach with any degree of self-confidence. But Sorin maintains such intimidation is unnecessary once we learn how to open ourselves up to sensory and imaginative experience. Espousing principles that can, and she hopes will, be applied to other aspects of life, Sorin views gardening as the perfect place to begin one's creative reawakening and offers a thought-provoking series of exercises and practices that will help readers produce their perfect garden setting while developing philosophies and habits that will allow them to enjoy the fruits of their labor."
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