Liberty and the art of walking

Abstract

I have chosen this text so as to recall the good memory of professor David Jarrett, the garden man, who inspired me to thinking about gardening, and especially about the English garden, not simply in terms of its undeniable aesthetic beauty, but also as a space which both masks and reflects social, political and epistemological conflicts. The paper reflects the hours (and miles) of walking and talking which David and I used to spend together in “England’s green and pleasant Land.”