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“Plants are also integral to reweaving
the connection between land and people.
A place becomes a home when it sustains you,
when it feeds you in body as well as spirit.
To recreate a home, the plants must also return.”
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
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“In the rain forest, no niche lies unused.
No emptiness goes unfilled.
No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped.
In a million vest pockets, a million life-forms quietly tick.
No other place on earth feels so lush.
Sometimes we picture it as an echo
of the original Garden of Eden—a realm ancient,
serene, and fertile, where pythons slither and jaguars lope.
But it is mainly a world of cunning and savage trees.
Truant plants will not survive.
The meek inherit nothing.
Light is a thick yellow vitamin they would kill for,
and they do. One of the first truths one learns
in the rain forest is that there is nothing
fainthearted or wimpy about plants.”
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Diane Ackerman
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“As dreams are the healing songs
from the wilderness of our unconscious –
So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes
are the healing dreams
from the deep singing mind of the earth.”
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Dale Pendell
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Appreciation, always, to Anna at Flutter and Hum for hosting the Wednesday Vignette each week. Please visit her for links to other beautiful garden photos from around the planet.
Photos by Woodland Gnome
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There are still a very limited number of A Forest Garden 2016 garden calendars left, if you wanted one and didn’t order it in December. Please contact me at woodlandgnome@zoho.com to order.
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Forest Garden 
Love the trumpet vine smothering the pine – it’s kind of rainforesty! Having never experienced a rainforest up close, that quote painted a wonderful picture in my mind.
A beautiful romantic picture- sans spiders and snakes! Thank you for the comment on the photo- almost chose not to use it as it is very wild looking! That was from Jamestown Island taken on July 4 last year. Thank you for visiting ❤ WG
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a favorite nature writer of mine. I am currently reading her book on mosses and loving it. Beautiful post.
Thank you, Julie. I will also take a look at Kimmerer’s book on mosses. Thank you for visiting today . WG
Love that Diane Ackerman quote – powerful and so true.
Yes! That is my favorite from the set, too. Love the ‘Thick yellow vitamin’ reference, and the image of ‘no emptiness goes unfilled.’ Hope you are well and warm. Is snow headed your way again? ❤ ❤ ❤
Burning the wood big time. Mixed precip. predicted for Sat. Sigh.
Happy winter 😉 Hope your garden is all tucked in and ready for it…. and you all, too!
We still have very little snow/crust/ice cover – an inch or two with tufts of grass poking up. So as long as we don’t get bitter weather or worse, wildly fluctuating temps., we ought to be okay.
Good news! Hope the weekend weather is good to you, and gentle with the entire country. We have flurries in the forecast for Sunday into the early part of next week. It has snowed around us, but we haven’t seen a flake this year…. ❤ ❤ ❤
Wow, that is unusual for you, isn’t it?
What is ‘usual’ any more? 😉 Very strange clouds here today as the front moved in. Very textured and sculpted. Looked more like an art installation than like an overcast day. Hope you’re in and cozy for the duration. e
Did you get a photo of the clouds? They sound cool.
It was, but I didn’t stop for photos. Didn’t even think of it, honestly, Eliza. I was talking with a friend, and then zipping through a few errands on the way back home. Made it home before it started raining 😉