# Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[ribbonfarm.com]] - Full Title: Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty - Category: #articles - URL: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/03/04/gardens-need-walls-on-boundaries-ritual-and-beauty/ ## Highlights Much of what humans want and need is not possible to supply in markets, and the chunks that are supplied are often not good materials for composing a human life. without rituals to set their boundaries and energize them, small groups cannot thrive. Good solutions to design problems – beauty in all its forms – evolve into being as least as much as it they are created by individual human agency.