a time to plant

Bit of composting around the fruit bushes at our Saughton Allotment earlier this afternoon ...

... this often-quoted passage from Ecclesiastes 3 seems appropriate to the occasion:


To everything there is a season

For everything there is a season, and
a time for every matter under heaven:
     a time to be born, and a time to die;
     a time to plant, and a time to pluck up
          what is planted;
     a time to kill, and a time to heal;
     a time to break down, and a time to
          build up;
     a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
     a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
     a time to throw away stones, and a
          time to gather stones together;
     a time to embrace, and a time to
          refrain from embracing;
     a time to seek, and a time to lose;
     a time to keep, and a time to
          throw away;
     a time to tear, and a time to sew;
     a time to keep silence, and a time to
          speak;
     a time to love, and a time to hate;
     a time for war, and a time for peace.

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Ecclesiastes 3

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