Then you hit the tomato family and realize there are thousands of species and another 90 genera you knew nothing about. So you get increasingly into level upon level of the depth and profundity of the earth s fertility. You begin to find out the earth is sacred and we really need to treasure that sacredness and build spiritual character so that life can go on. We are failing in this world because we do not give enough recognition and respect and respond to the whole integrated fact that the biosphere supports us, that we are just a part of it. We would like to believe that we can exist independent of it and we are destroying it.
Seed saving is the core of gardening.
That is the basic thing that allows the cycle, generation after generation after generation. You can take the same thing with human beings. A heartless society that doesn t work. It s all about the young ones, the fertility of generations, growing old, nurturing generation after generation. Loving what is growing and alive being tickled by diversity and variety and the beauty involved in all these aspects of being alive.