Garden Teaches Us To Travel

James Carse

If indifference to nature leads to the machine, the indifference of nature leads to the garden. All culture has the form of gardening: the encouragement of spontaneity in others by way of one's ow...

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Ourselves We're Helping, Ourselves We're Healing

James Carse

I am touched by another when the distance between us is reduced to zero. I am touched only if I respond from my own center -- that is, spontaneously, originally. But you do not touch me except from yo...

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