Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story
By: Marc Hamer
4.37
Format: 397 pages, Hardcover
Any garden belongs to everyone who sees it – it is like a book and everybody who visits it will fin…
Want to Read $ 9.99"We each have a space that fits us, all our darks and lights; and when we leave, the space lasts for a while, then slowly closes up, changing shape as it does, and we are mostly forgotten. I have forgotten most of my own life - why should somebody else remember it? I have found a purpose in life, and it is to bloom, wander around, have a bite to eat. Nothing of any value lasts for ever."-Marc Hamer, Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story
"We each have a space that fits us, all our darks and lights; and when we leave, the space lasts for a while, then slowly closes up, changing shape as it does, and we are mostly forgotten. I have forgotten most of my own life - why should somebody else remember it? I have found a purpose in life, and it is to bloom, wander around, have a bite to eat. Nothing of any value lasts for ever."-Marc Hamer, Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story
"For a few days, uncertain about what I should do next, I go for walks and watch television. The walking is good, but the television leaves me feeling hopeless and worthless. The vile psychopaths it wants me to enjoy cannot hold me in their spell. I can't bear to absorb those indelible images and pollute myself with hatred and violence. What doesn't depress me makes me feel like the cornered victim of a wealthy bore with their holiday movies, who sucks the vitality out of me. I pull the plug and take to my bed to read, cocooned again in poetry and wondering about a rebirth."-Marc Hamer, Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story
"For a few days, uncertain about what I should do next, I go for walks and watch television. The walking is good, but the television leaves me feeling hopeless and worthless. The vile psychopaths it wants me to enjoy cannot hold me in their spell. I can't bear to absorb those indelible images and pollute myself with hatred and violence. What doesn't depress me makes me feel like the cornered victim of a wealthy bore with their holiday movies, who sucks the vitality out of me. I pull the plug and take to my bed to read, cocooned again in poetry and wondering about a rebirth."-Marc Hamer, Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story
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