Garden Anarchy in L.A. - Wonderground
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Garden Anarchy in L.A. - Wonderground
It may seem like a contradiction to talk of foraging in your own garden, but little bits of wilderness constantly creep into any garden and even on a small patch, the pleasures of wandering and finding feel more like gathering than harvesting.
Sue Stuart-Smith • The Well Gardened Mind
gardening as a counterforce to disconnect, a salve to the illusion of human separateness and control, and a path toward what it means to live a truly good life.
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
Fiona Brockhoff: Why Garden? - Wonderground
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We do not normally think of gardening as an industry; it is a hobby, a pastime, a search for beauty, even an obsession. But, as well as these, gardening is something on which we spend money: it employs people; it uses tools and machinery; it occupies land, from the smallest patio to the largest park; it constructs hedges and pergolas, temples, foun
... See moreRoderick Floud • An Economic History of the English Garden
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
In the garden, appearances are lush. Everything seems as if it is freely given, originating from some hidden, mysterious source. That is why in literature, they are often sites of epiphanies – spiritual or erotic or otherwise – gateways to other worlds or orders of being.