tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033396282369500709.post936950589053814641..comments2023-12-31T08:55:18.571-05:00Comments on Juniper Hill: Giving It All BackUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033396282369500709.post-66604267818600324902011-09-18T10:53:07.375-04:002011-09-18T10:53:07.375-04:00Thanks, Jeanne! I look forward to reading the art...Thanks, Jeanne! I look forward to reading the article!--JoeJuniperhillfarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00770389869510247071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033396282369500709.post-75445263596661304572011-09-18T08:03:49.338-04:002011-09-18T08:03:49.338-04:00Great post Joe and very timely as I read an articl...Great post Joe and very timely as I read an article in the Financial Times this morning addressing the very same topic. I thought of you when I read it. I will see if I can find the link, if not, I will write separately for your address to send it. I seem to have mislapled it.<br /><br />Jeanne :)Jeanne Henriqueshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07986759909478180763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033396282369500709.post-36986794595875086762011-09-10T07:52:43.602-04:002011-09-10T07:52:43.602-04:00I ponder this a lot as I grow older along side my ...I ponder this a lot as I grow older along side my gardens. My garden is sacred to me having spent years and countless hours shaping it, and just as many enjoying it. Even the thought of having to give this up, and the new owners bulldozing the gardens can haunt me. Yet, I reminded of how temporal life is and that I'm only a small piece of this land. Before me it was farmland, grazed by animals and tended by farmers who, no doubt had similar thoughts about this land. What happens after me I will not know, but whatever becomes of it, I hope the new inhabitants (humans or wildlife) find beauty and shelter here. Thoreau says it beautifully:<br /><br />“Every blade in the field<br />Every leaf in the forest<br />Lays down its life in its season<br />As beautifully as it was taken up.”Maudenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033396282369500709.post-64976108322603098762011-09-08T15:35:57.835-04:002011-09-08T15:35:57.835-04:00It would be interesting to see if a design princip...It would be interesting to see if a design principal could be developed that would let you gradually transition back. Not that I want to give up (yet)!Paula Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06869943265760848896noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033396282369500709.post-61765375529607403582011-09-08T12:03:23.637-04:002011-09-08T12:03:23.637-04:00Hi Joe,
The life of a garden, is a very interest...Hi Joe,<br /> <br />The life of a garden, is a very interesting subject for your blog. One very distinct childhood memory is of being in a public park, once a beautiful and glorious garden that had become overgrown and neglected. The bones of the garden remained and even as a young girl I could imagine how beautiful it must have been. It made me a little sad really, the thought that gardens that had been once so well loved had been left to be reclaimed by nature.<br /> <br />Now all these years later I am still a little torn by the idea that a garden tended and designed with love could quickly revert back to a wild overgrown patch, but I am well aware of the fragile nature of life. We are all just visitors really and the marks we make on the world are rarely indelible. I try to remind myself that the love and energy we pour into the earth is never lost, that regardless of the weeds and thickets that may take over we have added something to the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com