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.
Interpretation
Gardening offers a sense of order and justice in a chaotic world.
This quote suggests that while much of life can seem arbitrary and random, the act of gardening exemplifies a clear relationship between effort and reward. It implies that through gardening, one finds purpose and meaning, creating a microcosm of justice and order that counteracts the randomness of the larger world.
In practice
During a speech about community involvement, this quote can highlight the importance of local food gardens.
There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breath work to all my patients.
In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness.
Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.
Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.
Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.
You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the meal. Practical animals, they prefer to have others provide the food ... some of them do. There must have been a split between the cats who accepted domestication and those who did not.
The Earth is given as a common for men to labor and live in.
Vitality and beauty are gifts of Nature for those who live according to its laws.
I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
O, beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited plain.
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