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To make a prairie

Emily Dickinson

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To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.

Personal Notes:

07-17-2025

I'm really vulnerable to nature sybolism at the moment, my garden and I are having a jolly old time together. I'm from Utah too, so the prairie has a lot of emotional stakes that are tied up in where I live and my pioneer ancestors.

Most of what I've learne from gardening is that you aren't actually giving anything to your plants, but rather you're building the environment they naturally want to live in around them. For my situation, that might be a lot, because these plants come from all around the world from all different biomes and I can try to grow more local varents but I do want plants I will eat. So it can be lots of work. But in nature, there isn't any specific person that has needs for the land, the land existing is valuable for itself. So what does it take? A bee. Time. On a long enough timescale, it will all be prairie again.