Ziraat
The thought of you, tills the soil that is my soul.
Hearing you, tells me the spirit of spring is ready to go.
The sight of you, waters the seeds that are my eyes.
The scent of you, shows the sweetness that should never hide.
Touching you, is to loll in a meadow of soft silky flowers.
Tasting you, is to drink from the purest of all rain showers.
Loving you, is to love all living-kind;
Cultivating the true garden meant by the Divine.
gezim
∞ is an Eastern word that means agriculture. It is also synonymus to a school of thought that uses the knowledge and wisdom gained through farming, as metaphorical and symbolic guides to living life the true harmonious way. The farms are the grand universities, and the farmers are the entire embodiment of those universities: the perpetual inquisitive student, the adept professor knowledgeable in every meaningful subject, and the very dedicated ever watchful vigilant administrator.
Mother Earth
" I tell you truly, you are one with the Earthly Mother; she is in you, and you in her. Of her were you born, in her do you live, and to her shall you return again. Keep, therefore, her laws, for none can live long, neither be happy, but he who honors his Earthly Mother and does her laws. For your breath is her breath; your blood her blood; your bone her bone; your flesh her flesh; your bowels her bowels; your eyes and your ears are her eyes and her ears."
~ Jesus
“A farmer cannot work without applying his mind. He must be able to test the nature of his soil, must watch changes of weather, must know how to manipulate his plough skillfully and be generally familiar with the movements of the stars, the sun and the moon. The farmer knows enough of astronomy, geography and geology to serve his needs. He has to feed his children and has, therefore, some idea of the duties of man, and, residing as he does in the vast open spaces of this earth, he naturally becomes aware of the greatness of God. Physically, it goes without saying, he is always sturdy. He is his own physician, when ill. Thus, we can see, he does have an educated mind."
~ Gandhi
Farmers have no choice but to live by the natural cycles of rhythm that govern all of life. That is the only way the farmers are able to grow life. It is the only way Mother Nature can grow life. Life that every human is dependent upon. There is no wisdom more valuable than the wisdom the farmers humbly obtain through their offering, of the greatest service to all of humanity. Feeding our bodies, hearts, minds, and Souls, providing us with the art of nourishment in its true complete form.
Mother Earth, Brother Moon, Great Aunt Sun, & Distant Cousin Mars
" Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children."
~ Ancient Native American Proverb
" Nature holds the answers to all of life's questions.” ~ George Washington Carver
" There is one Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, the only scripture that can enlighten the reader.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
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