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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Liberty Hyde Bailey Quote
“No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.”
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