If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

  • -- Luther Burbank 路德伯班

如果我们不像关心孩子一样关心我们的植物,我们现在就会生活在杂草丛生的丛林中。

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It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

人们总是明白,植物和动物虽然在它们的高级代表中是完全对立的,但在它们的低级和较简单的形式中却非常接近对方。但他们被认为不会融合。

Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

听着,你是来见我的,我不能继续下去,直到我的经纪人来了,他在等着付钱,所以给我一些钱,我好安排一下,然后你就能拿到你的演出了。

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

这叫做支付丹麦盾;但是我们已经一次又一次地证明了,一旦你把丹麦人的钱付给他,你就永远摆脱不了丹麦人。

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

今年有很多次我坐下来想,我是靠编故事来谋生的。这是我唯一的技能,所以我真的很幸运。

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

如果我们所有的幸福都完全与我们的个人环境有关,我们很难不去要求生活给予更多。

A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

做好事永远不会失去;播下礼貌的,收获友谊;播下仁慈的,收获友爱。

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

如果你可以选择一个能让你度过一生的特点,那就选择幽默感。

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

如果你不知道自己有多大,你会有多大?