Gardening Your Way to a Healthy Spirit

Gardening Your Way to a Healthy Mind, Body and Spirit (continued)

In my last two posts, we talked about how gardening fosters a healthy mind and body (click highlighted for a review).

A Healthy Spirit

“God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.” ~Martin Luther

I am taking a little different approach to this post compared to others. Instead, a thought will be introduced followed by an image that will hopefully verify the thought and provoke more of your own thoughts. Here goes:

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ~Kahlil Gibran

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. It has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful. Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and benumbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy. ~Hamlin Garland, McClure’s, February 1899