Friday, March 7, 2014
Gardens are Strange
"The fact that human beings create such things as gardens is strange, for it means that there are aspects of our humanity which nature does not naturally accommodate, which we must make room for in nature’s midst. This in turn means that gardens mark our separation from nature even as they draw us closer to it, that there is something distinctly human in us that is related to nature yet is not of the order of nature…"
Robert Pogue Harrison - Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition
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