Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.
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I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them.
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