JOAQUIN COSTA, AGRICULTURE AND ECOLOGY HARMONIC BY JOAQUIN COSTA
My Birth occurred May 15, on the second floor of the shop The Last in Barrio Luján, San José Central District of Costa Rica. In this suburb of teachers and workers passed my first twelve years. My family, by Barboza, were artisans and furniture Barboza my grandfather, of Italian origin, had a furniture factory with your name. The Vargas family, descended from Rio Grande in Athens, and my grandfather James sold the land to find gold mines Abangares. then settled in San Jose with their children, becoming merchants, grocery store owner whose The Last where I was born, was the uncle Victorino.
El Barrio Luján Ocloro ended at the river, where it began the large paddocks of pasture for cows and horses funeral, for there correteábamos, fished small goldfish and we swam in clean waters. Later went to live in the district of Zapote, about 4 km. east of Barrio Luján and changed the landscape here, as the air of people was more pronounced, and consisted of the church, school, football Plaza, Cinema my uncle Manuel and houses were separate batches and surrounded by coffee plantations, banana, avocado, soursop trees and large pores, spiny cedar, plums and mangoes, which kept the shade for the coffee was at a constant temperature and humidity throughout the year.
most impressive thing was to get a February morning coffee and see all white, covered with flowers, and the aroma of coffee filled the air. end of the year when you had to pick the fruit of the coffee, we were all children, adolescents and women the area to pick it up, to earn some money and bought soccer balls, books and notebooks for school. I say this because I spent my youth in a country like Costa Rica, land of volcanoes, which pioneered fifty years ago Development Sustainable and protection of nature as a vital for the survival of human beings so they can develop environmentally .
In my life as English, from 1968, when I came to Spain to study art, met the painter Fat Teresa Aragon, with whom I was married, and by grounds of his family heritage, I was involved again in nature, a twist of fate. About the year 1993, I had to learn to cultivate the land of Aragon near the Ebro, in such diverse products and to weather the Tropic, wheat, alfalfa, apples, poplars, and this is where Joaquín Costa in my culture, not the political side but on the side of a farmer, and is in the library of Aurelio Fat where was the publication of the first edition of 1911 book Harmonic Agriculture Volume I of the Biblioteca Joaquín Costa, published by his brother Thomas Costa.
This book I read with great interest and opened my eyes to how Agriculture is connected in the world and the effects the performance of Aragon, a farmer a farmer in America, or vice versa. It is a beautiful study on the use of water, the idea for the Oasis to preserve land for its aridity, it should be edited again. Here are some phrases in English and the first environmentalist interest in the land and its products:
... By virtue of the spontaneous action of these forces, metamorphosed nature of matter by passing the inorganic to organic, inert to living and obedient to the will, first made the stone, then convert the stone into bread, then bread and raw nerve muscle that circulate the electric spark intelligence and more spiritual tremors of love ....
... In it, human action has its limits: the assigned role of president and controller, but this limit is not always respected and sometimes exaggerating his statement makes it harmful. Instead of presiding over nature, the disturbance, not the drives, the precipitation, not endorsing, the for ... ....
.- Trees are the first group of workers who are given almost free to work for the emancipation of the farmer. They are docile and not very costly. Never delivered to the rest, day and night are exercise for nine months a year. Widen the ground of the country in many ways, by reducing its domain to the atmosphere, inexhaustible mine of primary elements with which the leaves produce rich and hearty fruit without the slightest detriment of the soil.
Viewing now the constant aggression and slavery to which yield to Nature, we become aggressive causing major disasters, as in recent years in the case of Haiti, Chile and Japan currently and that brings us to the need to reread this great thinker and follow Aragon advice.
... .. Crimes against nature are paid late, but the punishment when it comes, is terrible. Mueller said that a tree represents an individual's health and may be added that a tree is the guarantee of our lives and the shield of the homeland.
Carlos Barboza Vargas
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