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“The small pleasures of life are not so small really, it is just that we get into the habit of taking them for granted.”
― The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
― The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
“Gardening is about a balance of different forces, human and natural, life and death. When it comes to contemplating the inevitability of death, decay, and decomposition, however, much of the garden’s power derives from a direct and earthy engagement with it. If you are not a gardener, it may seem strange to think that scrabbling about in the soil can be a source of existential meaning, but gardening gives rise to its own philosophy, and it is one that gets worked out in the flower beds.”
― The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
― The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
“The eighteenth-century philosopher Immanuel Kant described how we love flowers “freely and on their own account.” Kant used flowers to illustrate his concept of “free” beauty, that is a form of beauty which we respond to regardless of utility or cultural value. Certainly, we know beauty when we see it. We recognize it as if something in us has been lying in wait for it. Beauty holds our gaze and saturates our awareness. Somehow the boundary between our self and the world shifts and we feel more alive in the moment of flourishing that it offers. Although the experience may be fleeting, beauty leaves a trace in the mind that survives its passing.”
― The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
― The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
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