“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.” NeedsGivingPersonsSelfPlayHelpingCareEarthChristianChristCommunityReligiousRolesClearTreePlanetsCreaturesUniqueGardenRiversCrossesDestructionSpeciesNeighborScriptureForestsStreamsSoilProvidingOxygenOur PlanetEdenGarden Of EdenReligious Person Author:Elizabeth A. Johnson
“While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.” IdeasEndsWholeIndividualCommunityNumbersBuildingExpressionAreasConcernGardenImportanceRelationStructureNotionArchitecturePlanningGreat MenPrimeGood Life Author:Lewis Mumford
“We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.” SeemsRunningJobsOpportunityHouseCommunityForgetBusinessEnvironmentDoorsWindGardenWindowPlantClimateContractsFarmersCropsFittingEntrepreneurialFurnacesSolar PanelsBiofuelsBoilerTurbinesFarmers MarketsWind TurbinesWindows And DoorsCommunity Garden Book:Rebuild the Dream Source: Rebuild the Dream
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.” NatureFriendshipCommunityGardenPhilosophicalBe GoodBeesInsectsHivesHoney BeeBeehivesBees And Honey Author:Marcus Aurelius
“There are Harvard grads, free thinkers, feminists, abolitionists, well-to-do people who want to go write poetry and live on a farm and cook and laugh and have a good time. As they themselves described it, it was an "inward facing" community. They were focusing on making a better existence for themselves, which I think is also the driving force of 20th century communalism in the US, the thought being that the world is corrupt, and we're going to build this little garden of innocence.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantWritingWellsLittlesForceCommunityExistenceLaughingCenturyGardenFeministDrivingInnocenceCooksGood TimesFarmsThinkerInward20th CenturyHaving A Good TimeHarvardDriving ForceAbolitionistGradFree ThinkersCommunalism Author:Christine Jennings
“We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.” KnowsCommunityGardenPlantFuelFarmsUrbanTransportTractorsCommunity Garden Author:Van Jones
“Gardening has increased, community gardens have increased significantly. There are 50 percent more community gardens right here in Washington DC.” CommunityPercentGardenGardeningWashington DcCommunity Garden Author:Michelle Obama
“I think most people do not imagine how things can change. In Detroit, there are community gardens that are only an indication that the country is coming back to the city. And that is something that actually is necessary to stop the real imminent danger of the extermination of our planet.” PeopleThinkingRealCountryCommunityCitiesImagineDangerPlanetsGardenComing BackOur PlanetIndicationDetroitExterminationCommunity Garden Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“All communities, and low-income communities especially because of food insecurity and lack of access to healthy foods, need more farmers markets, need more community gardens and urban farms. It would be great if people living in communities had the tools and resources to grow food in their own backyard - community-based food systems.” PeopleCommunityHealthyGardenInsecurityFarmersUrbanHealthy Food Author:Bryant Terry
“It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.” WorldDoeCareEasyCommunityExistenceFiguresGardenToronto Author:Yo-Yo Ma
“The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline.” FirstsProblemBitsCommunitySecretMagicConcernGardenSeasonsPrizeEpisodesRealismBlanketFortsSecret GardenTrampolines Author:Rob Sheffield
“Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.” YearsImportantSometimesCommunityMillionsConditionsBirdGardenClimateSpeciesLocalsRelySoilNativeInsectsIndigenousWildlife Author:David Suzuki
“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 and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayNeedsTryingLongStillsCommunityTeachSunPlansPlanetsLessonsGardenShiningPlantBotherZeroGardeningOur RelationshipInspirational GardeningPlanting A GardenGreat Garden Author:Michael Pollan
“The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldInspirationalFeelsEarthSpiritNatureFriendshipCommunityCitiesMountainGardenRiversEmptyFriendship Garden Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.” WorldWayLooksBookStatesAgeEarthTurnsFriendshipCommunityGardenEducationalUnconsciousPatches Author:Nan Fairbrother
“To clink glasses of a freshly made, seasonal beer, preferably in a pub or garden, with friends and perhaps new acquaintances, is a ritual that makes every participant feel good. We may not rationalize this at the time, but it gives us a sense of place in our common community and our time in the tides of life on earth. This is a way to value beer and treat it with respect.” WayGivingFeelsMayMadeEarthValuesCommunityCommonGardenTreatsGlassesFeel GoodBeerOur TimeRitualTidesAcquaintanceParticipantsPubsRationalizeSense Of PlaceNew Acquaintances Author:Michael Jackson
“We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.” ActionCommunityLevelsGardenNeighborLocalsSmall ThingsCommunity Garden Author:Grace Lee Boggs
“I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.” PeopleIdeasStoriesWantedCommunityWatchesProjectsGardenEntityCultivating Author:Michel Gondry