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.

  • -- Liberty Hyde Bailey 丽波提·海德·贝礼

花园需要耐心的劳动和照料。植物的生长不仅仅是为了满足野心或实现良好的愿望。他们的成功是因为有人在他们身上付出了努力。

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One of the most important resources that a garden makes available for use, is the gardener's own body. A garden gives the body the dignity of working in its own support. It is a way of rejoining the human race.

花园最重要的资源之一就是园丁自己的身体。花园给身体一种尊严,让它在自己的支持下工作。这是重新加入人类的一种方式。

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

如果我以前没有读过一本书,无论它是昨天出版的还是三百年前出版的,无论从任何意义上说,对我来说都是新的。

My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden.

我的邻居问他是否可以用我的割草机,我告诉他当然可以,只要他不把割草机从我的花园里拿走。

It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

在我出名之前结婚对我来说太晚了。你永远不知道人们的意图。