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Now, now, gentlemen, I drew a very distinct line. I said karma faerie,  
not Mother Nature.

I like to think of gardening as a one on one discussion with Mother  
Nature, and I hope that she is a respecter of persons. I see the  
people who treat her with reverence and care get a lot back. If that's  
not a give and take relationship I don't know what is.  :  )

My very own personal flying spaghetti monster, I'm afraid.



On May 13, 2008, at 11:00 AM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > > Observe Momma Nature. Closely. She does not take sides.
> >
> >
> > Says who?
>
>
>
> I once wrote a bit in twelve parts on what cosmic lessons the garden  
> had
> taught me with each part about a perticular vegetable.  The overall  
> tie-in was
> exactly what Gene has expressed, Nature is no respecter of persons.   
> As has been
> experessed in other holy writs, "... maketh the sun to shine on the  
> good and
> evil, and sendeth the rain to the just and the unjust..."
>
> Taking a lesson directly from Nature, bypassing all the human  
> generated hype,
> if I see a cabbage growing in someone's garden, I can in no wise  
> tell whether
> the person was fat or thin, old or young, male or female, nor what  
> their
> nationality, religion, language, or sexual orientation.  My  
> conclusion then must
> be that Nature doesn't care either. She is completely neutral on  
> those subjects.
>
> Nor can I tell whether the gardener is wise or foolish ... but the  
> odds are
> for the former.  Maybe that's what Nature favors.
>
> Do you recall a song a couple of decades back by a group called Mr.  
> Mister, a
> song called "Kyrie Eleison"?  The ecclesiastical types will say that  
> the
> phrase measn "Lord, have mercy"  but the Greek more accurately says  
> "Lord, favor
> (me)".  That, says I, is the most we can expect from Nature.
>
> James   </HTML>
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