Byung-Chul Han’s “A Journey Through the Gardens”, a Brilliant Essay on Our Uprooted Lives

The German philosopher Byung-Chul Han worked for three years in his garden near the Wannsee in Berlin. From this experience, he drew a pleasant and poetic little essay, in love and sometimes even with an assumed exaltation. “Gardening was for me a silent meditation, a stay in the silence. With him time was durable et fragranthe wrote in his foreword.