The Gardener — What the garden keeps，第 6 页
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A week passes. Kai crouches beside the compost box and looks inside. From the surface, almost nothing appears to have changed. Leaves still look like leaves. Scraps still resemble scraps. His expression carries mild skepticism. Useful work is not always visible while it is happening.
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A week later, Kai crouches beside the compost box and studies a pile that still looks much like dead leaves and scraps.
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Kai begins collecting fallen leaves, spent stems, and kitchen scraps in a simple compost box. At first the pile looks like a container for things that are finished. Over time, he sees heat, fungi, insects, and decomposition turn the discarded material into dark compost. When he feeds that compost back into the same flower beds, Kai realizes the garden does not divide the world neatly into useful and useless, living and dead. It keeps changing one into the other. The lesson is simple: an ending does not erase value, and worth is not the same thing as productivity.