• Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.

    Margaret Atwood: Gardening is not a rational act.   What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant.
    Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.277, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt