How does your garden grow? The hidden meaning of gardens
he garden is a moral environment. The condition of your garden, like the state of your teeth or the details of your browsing history, is a reasonable indicator of the condition of your soul.A daily newsletter with the best of our journalismAnyone who has poured themselves another late-night glass of wine instead of going out to pluck snails from the vegetable patch will know this.
William Tyndale, a Protestant scholar, was the first to translate the verse this way, though the original Hebrew contains the same ambiguity – it’s in the jussive mood, through which Semitic languages convey an indirect command. This joke would have worked at any point in the past 2,000 years. That’s the length of time that the gardens have been a paragon of horticultural grandeur. Elevated, irrigated, busting with pomegranates and cypress trees: one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.AD. His information is second-hand, however, derived from a lost text by a Babylonian priest called Berossus.
If this sounds like the sort of thing that a Zen philosopher might be expected to say to an American tourist pondering existence beneath a weeping cherry tree – then it’s worth sketching in some of Nishitani’s history. In the 1930s he went to Nazi Germany to study under Martin Heidegger. His anxiety that Japanese culture was being eroded by nihilism imported from the West was a handy philosophical fit with the views of Tokyo’s Axis-era government.
He also failed to check out the scene of the action. It was his associate Edward Gardner, general secretary of the Theosophical Society, who carried out a fruitless search for incriminating paraphernalia at the damp end of the girls’ back garden in Cottingley. Two decades on there’s a different attitude to the past in Viktor Orban’s self-declared “illiberal democracy”. A statue of philosopher and literary theorist Gyorgy Lukacs once stood on a lawn in Szent Istvan Park in the 15th district of Budapest. It depicted him with his hands deep in his pockets, his brow furrowed.
Social-media posts condemned Melania for uprooting roses cultivated by all the previous First Ladies and a row of crab-apple trees planted by Jackie Kennedy. Michael Beschloss, a historian, tweeted that “Decades of American history [had been] made to disappear.” But he was wrong and so was Twitter. Critics of Melania Trump had been seduced by a metaphor too perfect to be true.
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