Day 076b: How to tend Life’s Gardens … (June 29, 2019)

The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need never be zero-sum, and that as long as the Sun still shines and people can still plan and plant, think and do, then we can, if we but bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the the way of the world or harming the lives of any of its sentient residents … In this vein it is important to note that the master of any garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants its seeds, and pulls its weeds – not the one who merely strolls through its. Indeed, the same is true for life in general.” ~ inspired by Michael Pollan (unfortunately, a non-vegan hypocrite) and Vera Nazarian