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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (52251)	8/20/1999 11:06:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

The benign status of "gardener" is debatable. A garden isn't Nature - ecology has been replaced by an artificially selected and groomed "living artwork". It contains the highly subversive ethical principle that we can and should mess with anything we can get our hands on. Even more distressing to me, it suggests that a garden is "better" than the "unimproved" wilderness on which it was built. But a garden forfeits self-sufficiency on favor of imposed order. If the gardener's attention lapses the garden rapidly degrades into something less than either wilderness or garden. I prefer wilderness to a garden - if I can't have both. It has a vitality independent of the commitment and guiding hand of the gardener. Wilderness has the easiest imaginable care - stand off and don't mess with it. And that gives it a most direct beauty.