{"id":3116690,"date":"2004-05-01T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/jardin\/"},"modified":"2004-05-01T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2004-05-01T04:00:35","slug":"jardin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/jardin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jard\u00edn"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cQuien ama un jard\u00edn a\u00fan conserva su Ed\u00e9n\u00bb.<br \/>\n\u2014Bronson Alcott<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>En una de las declaraciones m\u00e1s inusuales que se han hecho en la literatura, el detective y racionalista Sherlock Holmes dijo, casi caprichosamente: \u201cLas flores son las se\u00f1ales m\u00e1s seguras de la Providencia en la naturaleza\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>No estoy seguro de qu\u00e9 caso estaba llevando en ese momento o si, por un golpe de suerte, simplemente tuvo un momento para oler las rosas en un jard\u00edn campestre ingl\u00e9s, pero s\u00ed s\u00e9 que los jardines son como altares al aire libre donde puedes sentarte tranquilamente y empaparte de la vida que se desprende de sus vestiduras invernales y asoma la cabeza a trav\u00e9s de la tierra que se descongela.<\/p>\n<p>Vengo de una larga tradici\u00f3n de jardineros galeses e ingleses. Aunque crec\u00ed en Filadelfia, todav\u00eda recuerdo el jard\u00edn que hab\u00eda fuera de la ventana trasera y el regreso de la misma tortuga cada a\u00f1o a un grupo de hierba alta cerca de la tuber\u00eda de desag\u00fce. Incluso entonces, a pesar de los muros de hormig\u00f3n y el tr\u00e1fico, la primavera llegaba como una alegre sorpresa cada a\u00f1o, record\u00e1ndome que toda vida busca moverse hacia la luz, si se le da una oportunidad.  <\/p>\n<p>Hay algunos lugares este a\u00f1o donde imagino que la primavera llegar\u00e1 lentamente: lugares como Irak, o algunos de nuestros propios barrios donde los sue\u00f1os mueren y \u201cla vida es un p\u00e1jaro de alas rotas que no puede volar\u00bb, como escribi\u00f3 Langston Hughes. Pero basta de sue\u00f1os rotos; la esperanza resurge cada primavera con la primera se\u00f1al de los narcisos o el sonido de un bate al golpear la pelota en el campo de arena cercano. <\/p>\n<p>Se puede aprender mucho si te sientas quieto cerca de un jard\u00edn. Cuando menos, podr\u00e1s abstenerte de causar m\u00e1s problemas a otras personas. No es de extra\u00f1ar que Henry David Thoreau, sentado cerca de su estanque de Walden, pudiera escribir: \u201cNo cruzar\u00eda la calle para ver el mundo explotar\u00bb. No tendr\u00eda que viajar m\u00e1s all\u00e1 de su televisor en estos d\u00edas para ver la ceremonia de la inocencia ahogada en la constante repetici\u00f3n de escenas de guerra.   <\/p>\n<p>Hay algo que te hace sentir humilde al plantar un jard\u00edn, especialmente para un urbanita como yo. Lanzas unos cuantos bulbos antes del invierno y, \u00a1listo!, sin siquiera levantar una pala o un rastrillo, los brotes verdes salen de la tierra, que hab\u00eda estado tan \u00e1rida y fr\u00eda durante tanto tiempo. Hablando de las simples gracias de la vida, nada se iguala a las vistas del amarillo, el azul, el rojo y el naranja enviando sus destellos a la luz del sol.  <\/p>\n<p>Tambi\u00e9n entiendo mejor por qu\u00e9 la diversidad es hermosa al estudiar mi jard\u00edn. Las flores azules no les dicen a las rojas: \u201c\u00a1Fuera de aqu\u00ed, este es nuestro lugar de la Tierra!\u00bb. Las naranjas no agarran los brotes verdes por los tallos e intentan echarlos de su espacio. La belleza de un jard\u00edn es que cada flor conserva su singularidad, pero cuando se une a otras forma un tapiz de alegr\u00eda. Retrocede unos metros cuando tu jard\u00edn est\u00e9 en plena floraci\u00f3n y observa su majestuosidad, tan maravillosa como ver el planeta azul Tierra desde la distancia de la luna.    <\/p>\n<p>Hay un viejo proverbio: \u201cMuchas cosas crecen en el jard\u00edn que nunca fueron sembradas all\u00ed\u00bb. Esa es la parte realmente humilde de hacer crecer una vida o un jard\u00edn. No importa lo cuidadosamente que plantes las semillas, algunas malas hierbas siempre se las arreglan para crecer. No puedes controlarlas m\u00e1s de lo que puedes controlar a la gente que te rodea. Y, a veces, incluso las malas hierbas a\u00f1aden un toque de diversidad a un macizo de flores o a una grieta en la acera de la ciudad.    <\/p>\n<p>En medio de los sonidos de las bombas, los aviones y los conflictos, un jard\u00edn, como la poes\u00eda, es simplemente una noticia que perdura. Y la noticia es buena: la vida se renueva. A eso, todos podemos decir: \u201cAm\u00e9n\u00bb.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cQuien ama un jard\u00edn a\u00fan conserva su Ed\u00e9n\u00bb. \u2014Bronson Alcott En una de las declaraciones m\u00e1s inusuales que se han&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9799],"tags":[11479,11719],"fpb_issue_category":[],"class_list":["post-3116690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cronicas","tag-crecimiento-espiritual","tag-naturaleza"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jard\u00edn - Friends Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/jardin\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jard\u00edn - 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