The wisdom of nature can be tapped into, because we are a part of that. By entering into the single activity of planting seeds or marveling at a butterfly tasting flowers with its feet, some forgotten channel opens up, and we receive insight into how we may more fully live as a part of this planet.
Garden Says, "Yes!" is a view of humans from the perspective of plants, a spring-gush of gratitude for being alive, an encouragement for those who wish to cultivate a rich and blooming inner life. Yes, you can drop the nag to be doing something else for a few minutes and fully be with trimming the rose bushes, breathing the air, hearing the crickets.
In this little book, there is an open amazement at the miraculous beauty of the natural world that we often hurry past, on our way to something else - rarely arriving completely where we are, with lines like:
"One seed, a door for sunshine to walk through and greet itself, saying, 'Happy birthday!'"
And acknowledgment of lessons learned from simply sitting in the cultivated space:
Somehow, the hollyhocks and zinnias have worked it out. Likewise with pole beans and strawberries. No cries of “You’re GREEN!” “Yeah, you’re RED!”...
You are invited to dive in to this book and maybe even give it away to a friend when you have spent enough time with it. The physical weight and crisp pages of a book in hand are a delight in themselves, and ought to be shared.