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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 Time: 4:25 PM
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Each season, just as in our lives, brings purpose and reason to our days. This cycle of life is beautifully depicted in Steve Bates' Seeds of Spring: Lessons from the Garden.

Seasons come, and seasons go; such is the life cycle of a garden. We plant, we nurture, we harvest, and then we start the cycle again. Notwithstanding the fall gardens of heirloom tomatoes, and winter gardens of kale and cabbage, gardeners also look forward to spring and summer, when berries ripen and melons mature. Each season, just as in our lives, brings purpose and reason to our days. This cycle of life is beautifully depicted in Steve Bates' Seeds of Spring: Lessons from the Garden.

Steve Bates fittingly states, "But time waits for no garden. We must take what the weather and the seasons give us." The gardening season begins in spring, embodying the notion of life's virtues and happiness. As fall begins to transition into winter, as all gardeners know, there may not be crops to harvest, but there is always work to be done. Sometimes caring for the garden means re-energizing the soil, sharpening tools, or studying the almanac.

In fact, many gardeners begin to feel a sense of empowerment over the entire garden bed. Bates states, "We foster life in the soil; we value life in so many ways. We feel noble, empowered, endowed. At times, we might feel that we deserve special favors, that we have earned the right to protect what is ours at all costs."

The transitions of the seasons convey important thematic elements of life. The garden and its cycle of seasons is a microcosm of how the world functions. Bates states, "Gardens have a unique capacity to impart lessons about happiness, loss, love, humility, pride, persistence, death, life and so much more." We are reminded through the seasons of a garden, of mortality and the passage of time. We learn to cherish life.

Bates' Seeds of Spring will leave its readers with a renewed desire and passion for gardening. Readers will be left with a profound appreciation for the cyclical nature of life. Bates says it well when he states, "It is through the loss of things, through death, that we measure and value life."