Gardening, as compared to lawn care, tutors us in nature's ways, fostering an ethic of give and take with respect to the land. Gar...dens instruct us in the particularities of place. They lessen our dependence on distant sources of energy, technology, food, and, for that matter, interest. For if lawn mowing feels like copying the same sentence over and over, gardening is like writing out new ones, an infinitely variable process of invention and discovery. Gardens also teach the necessary if rather un-American lesson that nature and culture can be compromised, that there might be some middle ground between the lawn and the forest--between those who would complete the conquest of the planet in the name of progress and those who believe it's time we abdicated our rule and left the earth in the care of its more innocent species. The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are and... so makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One who speaks a foreign language just a little takes more pleasure in it than one who speaks it well. Enjoyment belongs to those ...who know things halfway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What you have said I will consider; what you have to say... I will with patience hear, and find a time Both meet to hear and answer such high things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the LORD your God is gi...ving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor. You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »