The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created.
Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.
Garden as though you will live forever.
The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies.
There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.
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