Feb 5, 2020 | Natural Steward, Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
Stewardship is using the natural world carefully so that it thrives and thus serves human life well. The natural world provides food, cloths, and shelter, each with its proper delight and beauty. It can also form our mind and character, teaching us basic lessons of... 
Jan 29, 2020 | Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship, we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation.” Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land “Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the... 
Jan 15, 2020 | Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve.” Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance In this post I want briefly to examine the meaning of stewardship. In two following posts I will examine more specifically how stewardship pertains to... 
Oct 30, 2019 | Natural Steward, Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“Art imitates nature.” Aristotle VIDEO FOLLOWED BY DISTINCT WRITTEN REFLECTION This growing season was dry. A number of trees, not to mention my garden, suffered. Upon seeing them losing leaves in early September, I asked my local state forester to look at my trees,... 
May 2, 2018 | Natural Steward, Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
“Whenever the sun shines warmly over the earth, the old males tune their pipe, and enliven the neighborhood with their song. By early April, the snows are all melting away, and nature again, in all the beauty of spring, promises happiness and abundance to the whole... 
Apr 8, 2015 | Natural Steward, Natural Steward (Featured Posts), Wednesday Quotes
Last spring I posted a piece on dandelions, after I had been struck by the preponderance of death-dealing chemicals in the ‘lawn and garden’ section at the local big box store. Moved today by the appearance of tractors spraying herbicide over large...
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