Around that time we found yet another metaphor which seemed to usefully express our new way of positioning ourselves within what was happening, and within our new attitude towards the processes which were transforming the reality of the Northern Chaco: “gardening”. The image is inspired in some of the oldest writings of Chinese wisdom, where a way of being active in the world is compared to and described as the task of a gardener. “The gardener of the garden of the ten thousand things”: an image for a world in all its diversity, like the Ayoreo world eami, for instance. Speaking about the person who is taking care actively of such a world, it is said that: “The Master takes action by letting things take their course”… “What he desires is non-desire, what he learns is to unlearn.” “He simply reminds people of who they have always been. He cares about nothing but the Tao. Thus he can care for all things”. And finally, resuming: “He assists the ten thousand things in their natural development, but he does not venture to interfere”.[1]