Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.

  • -- May Sarton 梅·萨藤

任何让我们放慢脚步、迫使我们保持耐心的事情,任何让我们重新回到大自然的慢循环中的事情,都是有帮助的。园艺是优雅的工具。

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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.

于是她到花园里去割一片卷心菜叶子,做一个苹果派。与此同时,一只巨大的母熊,从街上走来,一头扎进了商店。“什么!没有肥皂吗?他就这样死了,而她却轻率地嫁给了理发师。

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

没有虚荣心,没有卖弄风情,没有好奇心,一句话,没有堕落,女人就不会是女人。她的优雅主要在于她的脆弱。

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

耐心和毅力有一种神奇的效果,在它面前困难消失,障碍消失。

Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

雨是恩典;雨是天空俯就大地;没有雨,就没有生命。

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

幸福生长在我们自己的火炉边,而不能从别人的花园中采得。

Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

你知不知道,你的晚年也会以同样的优雅、力量和魅力降临?

Govern a horse with a bit, and a shrew with a stick.

用一点治马,用一根棍子治泼妇。

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

希望是耐心点起的灯。