Why a Garden is Better than a Phone

Pick up your spade, put down your device

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“We must cultivate our garden.” When Voltaire wrote that famous concluding line to Candide, he could never have foreseen the degree to which humans two-and-a-half centuries later would fail to heed his advice. Instead of consistently re-tilling our belief system, planting questions about the nature of truth, and field-testing gambles…