The Garden Sanctuary For centuries, busy people have found solitude and refuge in the beauty and labor of gardening. Like many of England's nobility, Lady Mary Coke devoted herself to the deeply personal and rewarding journey of gardening. And many of Washington's CEOs do likewise. In the garden, we find poetry, prose, nightingale, song.
Butterflies mingle with earthworm, maple tree with fountain, stone with ivy.
In the garden we find a sanctuary, a refuge, a canvas, a place where love flowers and dreams are sown. This is the romance, one that is paired with an earthy reality. I am hard pressed to think of anything more relieving than working in a garden. Working the earth is the perfect antidote to the many abstracted dealings of the business world. The gardener begins to learn the seasons, the habitat, the needs of plants and the soil.