Pollenatrix

I am a willow of the wilderness,
Loving the wind that bent me.
All my hurts
My garden spade can heal.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  “Musketaquid,” Poems (1847)

You'll find it in a garden

Watch this wonderful video describing how permaculture turned around a barren, salt-poisoned plot of land in Jordan near the Dead Sea: "Greening the Desert".

This man makes one of the wisest statements I've heard in a long time...

"You can solve all the problems of the world in a garden."

Amen to that.

Happy Easter.

Garden Quotes

There is life in the ground:

When it is stirred up, it goes into the man who stirs it.   
author unknown

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. 
James Oppenheim

He who plants a garden, Plants happiness. 
Chinese Proverb

The nature of This Flower is to bloom.   
Alice Walker

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.   
John Muir

Advice on dandelions: If you can't beat them, eat them.   
Dr James Duke

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...evil labors with vast power

...evil labors with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.                                                                           J.R.R. Tolkien                                                                   April 1944

Quotes

"I live in the garden; I just sleep in the house."...Jim Long "Show me your garden and I shall tell you who you are."...Alfred Austin (1857-1929) "We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden."

Quote:

"Observe how all things are continually being born of change; teach yourself to see that Nature's highest happiness lies in changing the things that are, and forming new things after their kind. Whatever is, is in some sense the seed of what is to emerge from it. Nothing can become a philosopher less than to imagine that seed can only be something that is planted in the earth or the womb."                                                                          -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations