A big part of restoring ecological health to this planet is changing the public perception of manicured landscaping as the gold standard.
Really there’s no more reason to prefer it than there is to prefer a certain haircut. It’s just a very deeply socially conditioned preference.
And, according to everything I’ve read and studied — and witnessed firsthand in my practice — a preference that we must override. For many reasons, our very lives depend on our ability to accept a new aesthetic standard.
If the photos in this post I’ve shared from Milk the Weed, and similar ones going around, look messy and unkempt to you, and speak to you of neglect, recognize that that is our social conditioning.
And also, there are ways to introduce touches of neatness which can please your aesthetics without having disastrous consequences for life on earth.
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