INSPIRATIONS
“It's not about me. I'm just assisting to get someone to the place where I am and that is a place of happiness. To guide someone reconnecting to nature by building a beautiful garden where you can eat from, where you can pick flowers from, where you can hear, smell and see nature in all its glory.”
“When something can be imagined, it can also be realized.”
“Gardening is about reclaiming individual and collective sovereignty.”
Wende Brand
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BEIJA FLOR
Priya Subberwal
The Years Project
“Queerness in ecology is a concept broader than sexuality or gender identity. It is an all encompassing wink to weirdness in the more-than-human world, and serves as an alternative to the binary and reductive modes of thought in which so many of us have been trained”
"The purpose of agriculture is not just the pursuit of good crops, but the cultivation and improvement of human beings."
“The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.”
“A garden is a great teacher. It teaches you patience and careful attention, it teaches work ethic, but above all, it teaches you complete trust.”
“Save a seed and sow it in a bit of soil and see the miracle that happens.”
“Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.”
“You can solve all the world’s problems in a garden.”
Jenny Uglow
“We may think we are nurturing our garden, but of course it is our garden that is really nurturing us.”
“Permaculture gives us a toolkit for moving from a culture of fear and scarcity to one of love and abundance.”
With high regard to my two biggest inspirations, Piet Oudolf and Stefano Marinaz
Wende Brand
“Yes, gardening is about knowledge, but it starts with curiosity, wonder and a feeling of deep connection between you and nature.”
“Intuition, observation and the courage to make mistakes make a gardener. Let nature be your great teacher.”
“The is-ness of nature is healing us. Nature does not have any opinion about you, it doesn’t condemn your past, nor does it celebrate your successes in life. It just is, embracing the whole of your being.”
“The distinction between man and nature, it's a myth. It's a lie, actually. I see what this lie does with humanity. Turning your back to Mother Earth, which is our mother actually, has consequences. People start feeling depressed and empty. So to rediscover our roots in this world, which is the same as rediscovering nature within us and outside us, will heal us.”
“Loneliness is one of the greatest diseases of humankind at the moment. Creating a garden is a way of healing from this disease.”
“Mother Earth still loves us. Yes, we make a mess of it, but if Mother Earth didn't love us, we would not be here.”