“A fascinating object of thought” Libération, Coralie Schaub

“A unique and fascinating book which places the hedge at the Center” France inter, Dorothée Barba

“A very beautiful story, both personal and philosophical. A magnificent invitation to frequent the hedges” La Croix l’hebdo, Marine Lamoureux

“The essayist Sonia Feertchak sings the trappings of hedge with contagious conviction” Le Figaro, Charles Jaigu

“An essay that pays homage to these walls which are not like the others” Ouest-France, Claire Robin

“It is a book that balances between essay and story. A book in which you have to accept getting lost a little, to lose one’s categories and to stroll gently without wondering if this is a matter of theorizing the plant disorder or, just, to look at it. Like a part of our little interior messes.” La Montagne, Stéphane Vergeade

“A reading that I recommend” France Culture, Étienne Klein

A meditation around hedges that makes us discover this unknown ecosystem which makes us think about ultra-contemporary issues, those of the climate and our relationship with life

“They have disappeared from the landscape. For decades, like most of us, I didn’t notice anything. Suddenly, it’s an emergency: hedges need to be replanted. As the French daily Libération headlined last September, “Everyone wants a hedge”. Because their ecological interest is immense. But not only that.

A hedge is not a wall like any other. Closing, it is limited; ecosystem, it brings me closer to another cosmos, to other living species, to another way of being in the world, it opens a path that leads far,” writes the author.

Between personal story, historical anecdotes and analysis of concepts hidden in the bush, Sonia Feertchak draws a true philosophy of the bocage.

• Sonia Feertchak suggests making the hedge a philosophical object because philosophy is everywhere, all the time
• Fluid writing and personal anecdotes which make it an embodied text and make it easy to read