I can sort of see where you’re coming from. Gardening is the art of balancing order and chaos. I do think English gardening swings too far to the order side, creating picturesque but bland lifeless landscapes. As someone who has partaken in reforesting projects, there is always some ‘order’ required to create an effective ecosystem, even if it’s not a neat and tidy looking order.
Personally I do like the idea of areas of nature where humans are forbidden. It allows nature to maintain its mystery.
Gardening is the war against the chaos that comes from neglect and ignorance. The oldest occupation is that of Adam in the Garden of Eden, he was a gardner given the task by God to maintain the garden. It’s more than that he’s job was to be a co worker with the Creator in keeping the creation from falling back into the chaos from which it was created. This is still our task even now.
How about the Franciscan tradition of leaving one section of the garden un-touched to allow a little bit of chaos in but not to overwhelm the garden?
No man can completely account for everything in a system. Man in his pride tries to account for everything. Jonathan Pageau has a great video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM_kQjpAK6g&t=79s
I believe the philosophy behind Anglo-Futurism brings together all sorts of different threads; art, music, technology, politics, science, history and Sci-Fi. It could develop into a truly 21st Century ideology.
I can sort of see where you’re coming from. Gardening is the art of balancing order and chaos. I do think English gardening swings too far to the order side, creating picturesque but bland lifeless landscapes. As someone who has partaken in reforesting projects, there is always some ‘order’ required to create an effective ecosystem, even if it’s not a neat and tidy looking order.
Personally I do like the idea of areas of nature where humans are forbidden. It allows nature to maintain its mystery.
Gardening is the war against the chaos that comes from neglect and ignorance. The oldest occupation is that of Adam in the Garden of Eden, he was a gardner given the task by God to maintain the garden. It’s more than that he’s job was to be a co worker with the Creator in keeping the creation from falling back into the chaos from which it was created. This is still our task even now.
You are so correct ✅
How about the Franciscan tradition of leaving one section of the garden un-touched to allow a little bit of chaos in but not to overwhelm the garden?
No man can completely account for everything in a system. Man in his pride tries to account for everything. Jonathan Pageau has a great video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM_kQjpAK6g&t=79s
In the Problem of Pain (I think), CS Lewis makes the point that wild =/= natural.
Brother, all your AF posts seem to weirdly bring together my disparate interests. Would be great to talk sometime/somehow
I believe the philosophy behind Anglo-Futurism brings together all sorts of different threads; art, music, technology, politics, science, history and Sci-Fi. It could develop into a truly 21st Century ideology.