“Gardening is an opening of worlds-of worlds within worlds-beginning beginning with the world at one's feet. To become conscious of what one is treading on requires that one delve into the ground's organic underworld, so as to appreciate, in an engaged way, the soil's potential for fostering life.”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.comTagged: Gardens, Gardening, Nature, Soil
“We have a seemingly infinite capacity for misery. Yet if the human race is cursed, it is not so much because we have been thrown into suffering and mortality, nor because we have a deeper capacity for suffering than other creatures, but rather because we take suffering and mortality to be confirmati…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.comTagged: Amor fati, Misery, Pain, Yeasayer
“The gardens that have graced this mortal Eden of ours are the best evidence of humanity's reason for being on Earth. Where history unleashes its destructive and annihilating forces, we must, if we are to preserve our sanity, to say nothing of our humanity, work against and in spite of them. We must…”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.comTagged: Gardens, Growth