What Gardening Can Teach Us About Living

7 life lessons, from resilience to unexpected joy.
What Gardening Can Teach Us About Living
Winter is a good time to reflect on lessons from the past year's harvest—and plan for the season to come. Lomb/Shutterstock
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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
So declared America’s famous essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, and not only is that a fine epigram, but it also transposes beautifully to other aspects of human existence.
Eric Lucas
Eric Lucas
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Eric Lucas is a retired associate editor at Alaska Beyond Magazine and lives on a small farm on a remote island north of Seattle, where he grows organic hay, beans, apples, and squash.
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