Majicman Notes

In an age of lies and illusions, the garden is one way to ground yourself in the realm of the processes of growth and the passage of time,

A garden offers the opposite of the disembodied uncertainties of writing. It’s vivid to all the senses, it’s a space of bodily labor, of getting dirty in the best and most literal way, an opportunity to see immediate and unarguable effect… To spend time frequently with these direct experiences is clarifying, a way of stepping out of the whirlpools of words and the confusion they can whip up. In an age of lies and illusions, the garden is one way to ground yourself in the realm of the processes of growth and the passage of time, the rules of physics, meteorology, hydrology, and biology, and the realms of the senses.

Rebecca Solnit

https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/06/24/rebecca-solnit-writing-gardening/