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Spring to Water
We wish to quote excerpts from a short article written by
Tony Sacco for the Garden News published by City People's Garden News:
"But as the natural world becomes tilted off balance,
the gardens react and so do the quiet spaces. This is a complex dance we are
only beginning to see. Can we listen carefully enough to hear what nature is
trying to say? Whether we choose to act on it or not, our interconnectedness
with the natural world is becoming harder and harder to ignore.
"Maybe it's not quite spring. No little blue eggs in
those nests yet. Is it an early spring and the birds are finding themselves out
of phase with the food supply? Will winter come back in March? Have our own
cycles been thrown off, leading to a sense of unrest or numbness as the changes
come in greater numbers? Will nature be able to balance such sudden climate
change and still maintain the life we know?
"If the natural world changes too fast for the plants
and critters to adjust and if this is allowed to continue, will our quiet spaces
change in ways that will upset a balance in our own internal spaces? What does a
rapidly changing climate look like in the hearts and psyches of the human
family, who are so dependent upon the natural world for survival? If we look to
nature as the most necessary center of this life on earth, and the gardens we
love as microcosms of that natural world, how far can we let destructive forces
go before things fall apart?
As people of this planet who need the complexity of our
gardens, for among other things, places of refuge, do we all have a
responsibility to make changes, to help retain the balance of nature? Or perhaps
we will all throw up our hands as a deep frost hits all the newly forming leaves
in late March and say something about how enriching the gardens once were before
we upset the balance?"
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