patience - obviously plants take time to grow and need you to invest in their care
commitment - putting a seed in the ground is the very beginning, if you walk away at that point, something might happen, but if you want success you need to be committed
impermanence - the natural world keeps reminding us that nothing lasts for ever and some things don't last long at all. We have to fully experience them while they are here and feel gratitude in the memory when they're gone....and we need to keep learning this over and over...
creativity - if a hundred gardeners were given the same materials, plants and plot, one hundred different gardens would be created. There is no limit to creativity.
immersion - call it forest bathing, forest church or whatever you like, being surrounded by nature in all it's forms - weather, wildlife, fragrance, colour, tactile sensations, space - is a super-sensory experience. Dive in or lay back but enjoy it all. By now, we all know it's essential for every area of health, self-care and wellbeing.
So much more to say, but don't forget art, engineering, design, mechanics, biology, zoology, botany, mycology, above all just get your fingers in the earth and enjoy x
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