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A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

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As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being to...more

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Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

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The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.

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People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human - in ...more

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If you stand in a wheat field at this time of year, a few weeks from harvest, it's not hard to imagine you're looking at something out of mythology: a...more

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The green thumb is equable in the face of nature's uncertainties; he moves among her mysteries without feeling the need for control or explanations or...more

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Anthropocentric as [the gardener] may be, he recognizes that he is dependent for his health and survival on many other forms of life, so he is careful...more

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A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve thi...more

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The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not, as it was for my father, the relation to my neig...more

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In the same way that the picturesque designers were always careful to include some reminder of our mortality in their gardens -- a ruin, sometimes eve...more

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Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness.

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It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins.

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Each spring for a period of weeks the imperial gardens were filled with prize tulips (Turkish, Dutch, Iranian), all of them shown to their best advant...more

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The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines an...more