garden noises
As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade
To all the noises that my garden made,
It seemed to me only proper that words
Should be withheld from vegetables and birds.
A robin with no Christian name ran through
The Robin-Anthem which was all it knew,
And rustling flowers for some third party waited
To say which pairs, if any, should get mated.
Not one of them was capable of lying,
There was not one which knew that it was dying
Or could have with a rhythm or a rhyme
Assumed responsibility for time.
Let them leave language to their lonely betters
Who count some days and long for certain letters;
We, too, make noises when we laugh or weep:
Words are for those with promises to keep.
—W.H. Auden, "Their Lonely Betters"
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Psychotronics and a Biodynamic Garden
How to Grow and Harvest Healthier Food through Radionics and Dowsing
George Kuepper
This guidebook to growing better food is well referenced, with numerous illustrations, photos, tables, and examples. Gardeners and farmers who want to improve their plants and harvests using sustainable methods will find practical help and much food for thought here.
What Is Biodynamics?
A Way to Heal and Revitalize the Earth
Rudolf Steiner
Whether you are concerned with the quality of agriculture and gardening in particular or have a broader interest in the ecological crises facing us today, this book offers a transformative approach that can truly change the way we live together on Earth.
Vegetable Gardening
for Organic and Biodynamic Growers
Joel Morrow
Biographies of 76 vegetables with detailed accounts of how to grow them, their climate of origin, their transformation over time, and their nutritional and therapeutic potential.
This book is not only a gardening guide; it also guides the reader inwardly to perceive a vegetable as “a work of art, a journey, a rite of passage into the natural world.”
Biodynamic Farming and Gardening
Renewal and Preservation of Soil Fertility
Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer
In this indispensable guide, Pfeiffer covers soil qualities, making compost, crop rotation, best planting practices, using biodynamic preparations and sprays, and much more—all with the goal of growing the highest-quality foods by using sustainable methods and working with nature and caring for the earth.
Sacred Agriculture
The Alchemy of Biodynamics
Dennis Klocek
Based on numerous lectures presented to biodynamic gardeners, farmers, and winemakers, the author presents his views within a structure of Goethean observation, alchemical language, and the classic four elements, all based on the work of Rudolf Steiner and other pioneers in this field, as well as his own many years of interest in biodynamic methods, both conceptual and practical.
From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
Dying Earth and Living Cosmos
The Living Gifts of Anthroposophy:
The Need for New Forms of Consciousness
21 lectures, Berlin, January–August 1918 (CW 181)
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Truthfulness is an ideal which modern people need to embrace. Thoughts are realities, and true thoughts are wholesome ones. Untrue thoughts, however much concealed by the mantle of circumspection in relation to one’s own nature, create inner realities in us that obstruct and hinder the evolution of humanity and the world. . . .
—Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture of March 5, 1918,
in Dying Earth and Living Cosmos (CW 181)
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