Do you practice Shamar?

"The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it." Genesis 2.15

Keep = Shamar (in the original Hebrew)--a word that means to keep, tend, honor, guard...

Here are two thoughts:
1. Obviously a way to express our love and gratitude to the Lord, we are given the opportunity to shamar the earth--a faith-expression of eco-stewardship...

2. Here's a deeper thought--what if, and I know this is what if, but what if God's first covenant with his creation (and humankind) was to prepare the humans to understand what it meant to shamar something...They were to shamar the earth--something that required due diligence, continual effort, and an intoxicating desire to tend what he has been given...

Let's dig deeper now--what if, this was to teach humans what it meant to 'keep covenant'--everyday, and in everyway---so that when God would later introduce more revelatory covenants with his people--they would understand that to keep covenant was to shamar. The same word is used over and over again in the Torah to describe man's need to keep/tend/protect/honor YHWH's covenant with his people. What better way to teach covenant responsibility than to establish a 'base-line' covenant that is expected of all people everywhere--to shamar the earth?