Jim Nollman Professions : Musical Artist Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Jim Nollman A garden is the place millions of people go to touch the earth, to smell flowers - to use some of that fabled human brain power in the cause of better participating with natural processes in the place they call home. It serves as an art project, an organic produce market, a spiritual practice, a pharmacy. It offers ongoing lessons in ecology, biology, chemistry, geology, meteorology. Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time. It bestows on its practitioners a genuine sense of admiration for the plants, the soil, the sun, the water. Jim Nollman flower spiritual art Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ? Jim Nollman animal motivational inspirational As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is struck. Control, servitude, respect, imagination, pragmatism, an ecological conscience, compliance, and a certain measure of mysticism and altruism, all meld together to provide nurturance. Jim Nollman garden compassion humility Like William Morris, Joe Hollis asks us to perceive paradise gardening as a juncture where artfulness directly serves life. In fact, we might go so far as to define this paradise as the place where art is indistinguishable from life, and where simplicity is codified as the best path for achieving happiness. Jim Nollman happiness life art Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place. Jim Nollman gardening rocks love Similar Authors Burial musical-artist Butch Hancock musical-artist Buddy Bolden musical-artist Bud Flanagan musical-artist Bryan White musical-artist Brittany Howard musical-artist All Authors
