Landscape Maintenance and the Fear of Death - Wonderground
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Landscape Maintenance and the Fear of Death - Wonderground
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
Mostly, people stopped growing food themselves less than a hundred years ago. Vegetable gardens were replaced with lawns, which gradually became symbols of status. It was a way of saying to neighbours, "Hey, look at how wealthy we are! We don’t even have to use our land to grow our own food!"
Mary Reynolds • The Garden Awakening: Designs to nurture our land and ourselves
Although gardening is a creative act, it is not always held in high regard. Sometimes it is trivialised as a ‘nice’ hobby or an unnecessary luxury; equally it may be relegated to a form of lowly manual labour. The source of this polarisation can be traced back to the Bible. The garden of Eden is as beautiful as it is abundant and until Adam and Eve
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