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a benevolent dictator deciding which living things get to stay alive today
means A person who tends a garden — planting, watering, weeding, and otherwise coaxing living things to grow.
from From Old French 'jardinier,' from 'jardin' (garden), which traces back to a Frankish root 'gardo' meaning an enclosure or fenced plot — a cousin of English 'yard' and 'garth.' The thread running through all of them is the fence: a garden was first a piece of land you walled off from the wild, and the gardener was the one who ruled inside the wall.
- hidden athlete
- Heavy gardening burns more calories than jogging.
- soil high
- Soil bacteria can trigger serotonin release in humans.
- long game
- Plants planted now may outlive the planter by centuries.
- war crimes
- Weeding is daily, deliberate, guilt-free killing.
- oldest job
- Humans gardened before they ever farmed grain.
monticello gardens — thomas jefferson's 1000+ acre estate gardens in virginia, designed and maintained by him
versailles gardens — andré le nôtre's 250-acre formal gardens for louis xiv, completed 1683
sissinghurst castle garden — vita sackville-west's 6-acre garden in kent, england, created starting 1930