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I know the practical, it will keep you breathing; awe, on the other hand, is what makes you (me) want to keep living. (JK)

A garden is the place to tend to the subtler, life-sustaining regiment of our lives. A place to cultivate the imaginary, hope, and expectations held in budding plants, intimated by the unfurling of new flower, the subtler and supporting reasons to toil and labor, should be the right of every citizen.
Thought, sunshine, and flowers: time to think and imagine, to take in the sun and breathe unhurriedly, and to tend to plants within their temporality. (RS)

Beauty will come to them  

Where they stand.

[…]

Trees need not walk the earth 

For beauty or for bread;  

Beauty will come to them  

In the rainbow—  

The sunlight—  

And the lilac-haunted rain

David Rosenthal

Plants are anything but passive.

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“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

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Castillo de San Marcos, Saint Augustine

“The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing.”
“Grace, that dictionary. A place where every thing was attached to a meaning.”
“Fear made me work hard, get better. It’s a dirty fuel, but it works.”
“… read an Odyssey in a gasp, a Shahnehmeh in a sigh”
“I did know real, deep joy. […] my lifetime’s allotment”

–Kaveh Akbar