husbandry

Noun
1. a. The act or practice of cultivating crops and breeding and raising livestock; agriculture.
b. The application of scientific principles to agriculture, especially to animal breeding.

2. Careful management or conservation of resources; economy.

“THE WORD “HUSBANDRY” IS THE NAME of a connection. In its original sense, it is the name of the work of a domestic man, a man who has accepted a bondage to the household. To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals—obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures, in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all the practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us. “

From “Renewing Husbandry” by Wendell Berry

Slow

A monk asked Chimon, "Before the lotus blossom has emerged from the water, what is it?" Chimon said, "A lotus blossom." The monk pursued, "After it has come out of the water, what is it?" Chimon replied, "Lotus leaves."

Water

The Early Ubaid - (5300 - 4700 BC) period when the wheel was invented sprang from an agrarian settlement based upon intensive subsistence irrigation.

Ancient Rome had eleven major aqueducts, built between 312 B.C. (AquaAppia) and 226 A.D. (Aqua Alexandrina); the longest (Anio Novus) was 59 miles long. It has been calculated that in imperial times, when the city's population was well over a million, the distribution system was able to provide over one cubic meter of water per day for each inhabitant.

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Superior man

A superiour man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard.

If you set your mind on humanity, you will be free from evil.

Confucius

gentle handling

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Sharing

Mine

Nourishment

self-awareness

other

Existence

self awareness

Meaningless

Expectation

Good or Bad?