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A Garden is


...a place that serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy.

It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology...

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time...

Gardening is creativity on a grand Utopian scale. We consult a nonexistent compass and so set off on a journey to Eden, which actually ends when we encounter a sense of place.
(Excerpts from Why We Garden: Cultivating a Sense of Place by Jim Nollman 1994)
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