{"id":2148,"date":"2014-10-11T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T11:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2014-10-11T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T11:44:28","slug":"united-plant-savers-botanic-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecotropy.net\/php\/2014\/10\/11\/united-plant-savers-botanic-sanctuary\/","title":{"rendered":"United Plant Savers Botanic Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanctuary.<\/p>\n

There are places we all have and go to that nourish us, both internally and externally.\u00a0 These places are wellsprings of life, energy, spirit and beauty that root us in ourselves and place. Worlds apart exist there – populated by the dreams of all\u00a0 who inhabit that space. Throughout my life, I have found sanctuaries in many\u00a0 landscapes – places that are especially resonant and vibrant for me for their beauty, biology, geology, spirit, history, essence and poetry. Rarely do all these elements align into a singular convergence, but this place is one.<\/p>\n

I spent an afternoon wandering the intertwining paths of this magical hollow, feeling very humble as a person and as a designer. I sometimes wonder how I can create something as timeless and moving as sanctuaries like this one. As a designer, I constantly think of place, harmony and honoring layers of ecology, history and culture and how overwhelming it is when somehow they converge.Though I was there only for a short time, I learned a great deal from what I witnessed — and I am thankful.<\/p>\n

While there, I recited one of my favorite poems by e.e.cummings – the one my wife and I shared at our wedding.<\/p>\n

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i thank You God for most this amazing
\nday:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
\nand a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
\nwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes<\/p>\n

(i who have died am alive again today,
\nand this is the sun\u2019s birthday; this is the birth
\nday of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
\ngreat happening illimitably earth)<\/p>\n

how should tasting touching hearing seeing
\nbreathing any\u2013lifted from the no
\nof all nothing\u2013human merely being
\ndoubt unimaginable You?<\/p>\n

(now the ears of my ears awake and
\nnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)<\/p>\n

e.e. cummings
\n1894-1962<\/p>\n

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