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NATURE
Secret 3 - Sustenance
A man, let’s call him
Steve, visited a nursery
in March 2020. Perhaps
he knew something about
the challenges ahead and
wanted to be prepared. He
purchased a large number
of vegetables and fruit trees.
The owner approached Steve
to ask what he was planning
to do with all the plants.
Steve said he wanted to
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nature, and their systems are equally extraordinary.
Maybe one day, through biomimicry or entomology, we will
learn their secrets too and then appreciate them for it.
And for the bird lovers:
What is a garden without birds
but a life only the deaf and blind could comprehend?
What secret songs do they sing
whistling among themselves through the trees?
We can see them if only we look.
We can hear them if only we hear.
We can understand them, if only we invite them
into our gardens.
completely redesign his Imagine a world like that?
garden to be fully sustainable One in which we all share in
for the coming months ahead each other’s harvest. It is true
and beyond. The owner, that what we sow, we reap
curious about this plan, told – but what we share creates
him that he would have way abundance.
too much produce to consume Spring, with its blooms,
just for himself. Steve, without blossoms and sprouts, is a
hesitation, responded that reminder to pause and marvel
he intends to share the yield at the wonder and the secrets
with his neighbours and our gardens hold. Why else
community. would it want to show off?
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