A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
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Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.Liberty Hyde Bailey
We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.
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There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
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Every decade needs its own manual of handicraft.
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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