Complexity is Closer to the Truth
Making simple matters complex or complex matters simple are both bad gardening techniques.
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 happiest gardeners have simply learned how to relax.
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.
Location, location, location … is also true for plants.
Never just One: fruit, a hoe, the moving Sun. ”
- Mike Garofalo, Pulling Onions
“For the beginning is assuredly
the end — since we know nothing, pure
and simple, beyond
our own complexities.”
- William Carlos Williams, Patterson, 1946, Book I, p.3