Seldom Just One

The Many Create and Elevate The One

“Simplifying our relations to things sometimes allows us to live
more complex intellectual and emotional lives.
Repetition and diversification are Nature’s formulas.
Simplifying and simplicity are never simple matters.
The empty garden is already full.
The simplest garden is never simple.
It takes four seasons to know one year.
Complexity is closer to the Truth.
Diversity, multiplicity, relations, combinations, mixtures, complexity -
rarely just one process or one thing.
Never just One: fruit, a hoe, the moving Sun.”
- Michael P. Garofalo, Pulling Onions





Photo by Karen Garofalo taken in downtown Red Bluff, CA, November 2008.


“An agricultural adage says the tiny animals that live below the
surface of a healthy pasture weigh more than the cows grazing
above it. In a catalogue selling composting equipment I read
that two handfuls of healthy soil contain more living organisms
than there are people on the earth. What these beings are and
what they can be doing is difficult to even begin to comprehend,
but it helps to realize that even thought they are many,
they work as one.”
- Carol Williams, Bringing a Garden to Life, 1998

Green Way Wisdom - Complexity