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Burning Bush
Janice Wells in The Gin and Tonic Gardener most often provides advice about hardscaping — getting the structural elements in place — but every once in a while she waxes eloquently about the beauties of a given plant. Take for … Continue reading
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English Vistas
From a piece of ephemera. The flyer announcing Stonyground Press publication in 1987 of Groves by Thomas Traherne (1637-1674). Edited by D.D.C. Chambers. The Civil War in the middle of the 17th century destroyed many of the forests of England, … Continue reading
Two Tours of MOO Gardens
There are riches in the old worlds of MOO. Take the gardens of Lambda MOO (accessible via Telnet lambda.moo.mud.org 8888) One search on the MOO @findroom garden — a long list of gardens crops up — matches 103 rooms Tour … Continue reading
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Experience
Kant opening the Critique of Pure Reason That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. And there is a fair bit of stumbling after that until knowledge and experience are united. For example… I think that … Continue reading
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Specimen Collector
Bathtubs and computers don’t mix and e-books would not catch on. It’s a line of defense we hear less and less given the new generation of specialized screen readers for e-books. But there are some uses still left for the … Continue reading
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Libraries, Gardens and Arabian Nights
I have always thought of gardens as libraries — housing genetic material to be read and recombined. Cameron Smith in the Toronto Star (June 14, 2003) in “The army in our gardens” makes a similar point. A garden, then is … Continue reading
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Gardens, relationships, complexity
She introduces “Familiar prettiness” (collected in A Joy of Gardening) with the following paragraph: The more one gardens, the more one learns; and the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. I suppose the whole of … Continue reading
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Glory and Process
Edmund White has suggested that there is something alchemical about James Merrill’s poetry. He suggests that the “alertness to transubstantiation is the religious impulse behind Merrill’s verse.” Take for example this excerpt from a poem from The Inner Room Open … Continue reading
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Transplantations
I suspect the following is from an article about the construction of the Music Garden in Toronto. The quotation, like a healthy bulb, it transplants well. “I’ve been struggling all my life to define what a piece of music is,” … Continue reading
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Value and Price and Respect
From the essay “A Nation Rich in Natural Resources” collected in Home Economics comes this meditation by Wendell Berry upon the notion of value. We must also notice that as the natural energy approaches human usability, it passes through a … Continue reading