Gardening is the closest one can come to being present at creation
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and listen to it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. I can hear it.