Negative capability

more likely to diminish the experience than to enrich it. In a letter to his brothers Keats speaks of 'Negative Capability' as the capacity for ‘being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason'. This seems exactly the response demanded by many of these gardens.

At the base of almost everything, the resulting truth is this: we don’t know. When we disregard this unknowingness, we can easily become disinterested, uninspired, and worn out of this life. We can put great stress on things that perhaps don’t matter all that much and neglect experiences and things that do. We can feel the pressure and anxiety of c