A gardener can become more like a natural philosopher, that is one who:

In taking up a more philosophical outlook gardeners not only

harvest healthy, beautiful, abundant produce,

but they also begin to participate with a real life process acting upon the plants,

and harvest insights that inform the way they relate to the garden.

Goethe took up this art of natural philosophy, and descried a way of looking to the plants:

‘Like the sun which draws forth every plant and shines on all,

he must look upon each plant with the same quiet gaze;

he must find the measure for what he learns, the data for judgement,

not in himself but in the sphere of what he observes.’

Topics

Ways of looking
to plants in the garden,