If you build it, they will come;
and if they’re welcome, they will stay.
If they become nuisances,
keep the door open,
as others will come to tame them.
– lessons learned, garden 2015.
Quotes
Autumn
“Let whoever wants to, relax in the south,
And bask in the garden of paradise.
Here is the essence of north – and it’s autumn
I’ve chosen as this year’s friend.”
The Scent of A Bee
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
Creation
“A power of Butterfly must be –
The Aptitude to fly
Meadows of Majesty concedes
And easy Sweeps of Sky -”
Stone
“Most people are on the world, not in it– having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them– undiffused separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate. ”
Garden
“One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener’s own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.”
Journeys
“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.”
Nurture the Soil…
“The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.”
Hope
“Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all.Emily Dickinson
Shabbat
“Some keep the Sabbath going to church, I keep it staying at home, with a bobolink for a chorister, and an orchard for a dome. ”
