Bill East wrote:
>imagine it is. Tilling the earth is a curse consequent upon Adam's
>sin, so whatever the nature of the paradisus, it did not involve any
>gardening.
Well, OK, if the soil is anything like my Michigan clay (aka concrete), I
agree
tilling is a curse. But every gardener's dream is to have soil so rich and
crumbly that working in it is a joy. I imagine the Garden of Eden something
like Milton's, where Adam and Eve putzed around trimming up vines--definitely
not laborious work.
Best, Carol
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Augustine, to Truth: Your best servant is the one who does not attend
so much to hearing what he himself wants as to
willing what he has heard from you.
Confessions, Book X
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