“Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction.” MeanChoicesImaginationCreativityPossibilityOffersGardenInnovationSurpriseChaosSatisfactionInventionComplexityLimitlessMaking ChoicesLimitless Possibilities Author:Jane Garmey
“All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always sort of different from what you were thinking when you began. What it really means to be a good gardener is to work hard to produce an ecosystem that will have enough diversity, enough possibilities, so it's robust, and it's resilient, and it can change when the seasons change. And that kind of robust, unexpected, variable, messy system - that's what you want to create when you're having children, too.” ThinkingKindMeanChildrenDifferentEnoughPossibilityHard WorkDiversityGardenUnexpectedGardenerMessyReally MeanResilientHaving Children Author:Alison Gopnik
“If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it, appeared in the shape of the serpent. This capitalistic monster awakens in Adam and Eve the possibility that things could be better. Instantly, they are cast out of the garden and condemned to a life of toil, drudgery, and pain. Wants supplanted needs, and things have been going downhill ever since.” IfsWantNeedsHas BeensSelfPainDesirePossibilityShapesGardenCastsMonstersConsumersAdamToilHuntersSerpentAdam And EveDrudgeryHunter Gatherers Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.” FeelsHandsEarthPleasurePossibilityGardenSeasonsWarmGardeningGardenerFingertipsInspirational GardeningSpring GardenSpring Gardening Book:The Forgotten Garden: A Novel Source: The Forgotten Garden: A Novel
“I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.” WorldMadeBookMomentsMightLyingPerfectMysteryPossibilityGardenEternityInfiniteMereFruitOpeningMortalsGrantsMatesPregnantEnticing Author:Catherynne M. Valente