the loop

If nature is a language then she talks in circles.

All her design is in the form of cycles within which everything unwittingly exists. Except one thing, us. Humanity has deliberately captured nature in boxes, or categories, dissected her and used the component parts without any heed to her essence: the whole.

I think gardening is one small means of regaining the truth, by becoming re-acquainted with nature's processes. The best gardening practices are also cyclical: composting being the obvious example. By way of contrast, any practice that ends up with 'garden waste' being burnt or dumped breaks the cycle and is clearly fallacious.