Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

"To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
 ... Gandhi

The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all
our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to
foster its renewal is our only hope.
   - Wendell Berry 

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not
television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only
those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about
it. 
   - Aldo Leopold in  Round River, 1933

Wisdom of the land.


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 10/5/2007 at 9:56 AM activism98201@verizon.net wrote:

>What's needed is wisdom.
>
>I agree with Harvey that intelligence is no guarantor that things would
>turn out right.
>
>It's my (simple) understanding that wisdom is the ability to understand
>how to properly apply intelligence.
>
>I liken all of this to the phrase "a straight shooter."  Well, one can
>shoot straight, that's a plus, but if your aim is bad then that straight
>shot (hitting what you're aiming at) ain't really going to cut it.  Aim
>right and shoot straight, that's wisdom exercised!
>
>
>In this group I find a true quest for wisdom...
>
>
>-mark
>