The garden is a place particularly susceptible to contemplation. Gardens can be, of course, great aesthetic, even spiritual, achievements—the manicured walkways of the English promenade, the polished stones of Chinese enclosures, the layered harmonies of beauty-tamed chaos in the Japanese garden, the otherworldliness and humid refinement of the Hawaiian botanical garden and arboretum. Such places display the marvelous intertwining of the human and natural worlds, and in this order (the
I'm spending time delighting in your poetry instead of tending to my unruly garden!