Growing With My Garden: Thoughts on Tending the Soil and the SoulWipf and Stock Publishers, 8 ian. 2014 - 134 pagini Rolland Hein has woven together two of his passions--poetry and growing things--in a book that serves as both a Christian devotional and a gardening primer. The garden provides so many illustrations for life and growth for us as spiritual persons. Hein's illustrations are full of poignant quotes from such great poets as Simone Weil, Wiiliam Blake, Emily Dickinson, and John Updike. This book will serve as a tremendous resource for both seasoned and first-time gardeners. Included are a bibliography and recommended sources for gardening supplies. |
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... The plant does not have any control or choice in the matter of its own growth. As for us, we are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light. -Simone Weil M1 INTRODUCTION In the middle of a bed of magenta.
... The plant does not have any control or choice in the matter of its own growth. As for us, we are like plants that have the one choice of being in or out of the light. -Simone Weil M1 INTRODUCTION In the middle of a bed of magenta.
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... growth and development until at last it buds and flowers. Removing redundant buds and lateral branches must surely be distressing if not painful to the plant, while watering and fertilizing encourage it to do its best. The plant must ...
... growth and development until at last it buds and flowers. Removing redundant buds and lateral branches must surely be distressing if not painful to the plant, while watering and fertilizing encourage it to do its best. The plant must ...
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... growth should almost hide them, but not completely. Any other paths that are needed should be pleasingly proportioned to the size of the garden beds and wide enough for comfortable strolling; three foot is a good minimum width. Choosing ...
... growth should almost hide them, but not completely. Any other paths that are needed should be pleasingly proportioned to the size of the garden beds and wide enough for comfortable strolling; three foot is a good minimum width. Choosing ...
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Let It Be | 27 |
What about Tilth? | 31 |
Seeds Grow but Who Knows How? | 37 |
Give Up and Give Over | 43 |
Therefore 1 Have Hope | 73 |
Showers of Blessing | 77 |
Reality | 81 |
The Moments Satan Cannot Find | 87 |
Waiting for the Harvest | 91 |
Out of Evil Good | 99 |
What I DO Is Me | 105 |
Winter Doldrums | 111 |
Nature Is Never Spent | 49 |
Why Not Simply Pull It Out? | 55 |
A Smile on All Creation | 61 |
Those Terrible Choices | 67 |
Putting on the Beauty | 119 |
The Unimaginable Zero Summer | 125 |
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Growing With My Garden: Thoughts on Tending the Soil and the Soul Rolland Hein Previzualizare limitată - 2014 |
Growing with My Garden: Thoughts on Tending the Soil and the Soul Rolland Hein Previzualizare limitată - 2004 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
abundance amaryllis beauty Bible bloom buds bulbs Christ Christian Collected Poems color Complete Poems compost created creation delight divine drainage earth effect Emily Dickinson eternal faith fertilizer flower bed Frost fruit G. K. Chesterton garden centers Garlic mustard George MacDonald Gerard Manley Hopkins germinating give glorious glory God's grace grow growth harvest heart heaven hope imagination inch keep landscape leaf mold leaves light living Lord lust manure metaphor mind moments morning mystery nature never one's path Paul peat moss perhaps person planning plants promise Prose purchase reality realized redeemed remove repotting righteousness Robert Frost roots Scripture season seed showers Simone Weil soil soul spirit spring summer T. S. Eliot thee things thou thought tilth tray trees true truth vermiculite W.B. Yeats wait weeds William Blake William Wordsworth winter words wrote