Author, photographer, and professional gardener Elizabeth Murray encourages us to transform our gardens into places that satisfy our need for the sacred, for play, for meditation, and for connecting with the earth. To this end, she offers a comprehensive exploration of useful archetypes and symbols; photographs and insights about twelve sacred spaces, from the Moss Temple in Kyoto to private gardens in Europe and America; and a chapter urging us to use our gardens for celebration and ritual, exemplified by the story (and pictures) of Murray's own wedding garden--which eventually became a memorial garden. Prose and images inspire us to be aware of the connection between our souls' growth and the flourishing of our sacred gardens. 160 pages, 8.5" x 9", 83 full-color photographs and illustrations, casebound, with dust jacket.