“flowers represent life itself, as fertility, mortality, transience, extravagance, and as such they enter our art, rites, and language.”
“the garden is one way to ground yourself in the realm of the processes of growth and the passage of time, the rules of physics, meteorology, hydrology, and biology, and the realms of the senses.”
“Death is never an ending in nature.”
a garden is always a place of becoming, to make and tend one is a gesture of hope, that these seeds planted will sprout and grow, this tree will bear fruit, that spring will come, and so, probably, will some kind of harvest. It’s an activity deeply invested in the future.
Plants are anything but passive.
They made the world.
–Solnit
