True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

  • -- G. K. Chesterton 特顿

真正的满足和农业一样活跃。它是一种力量,可以使你摆脱任何困境。这是艰巨的,也是罕见的。

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With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

随着农业的引进,人类进入了一段漫长的贫困、痛苦和疯狂的时期,直到现在他们才被机器的仁慈运转所解放。

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

由于技术的限制,我们每英亩可以生产一定数量的食物。如果我们有集约化的温室农业,我们就能有更高的产量。

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

真正的满足并不取决于我们拥有什么;浴缸对提奥奇尼斯来说够大了,但对亚历山大来说世界太小了。

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.

我们可能会经过紫罗兰,寻找玫瑰。我们可以通过满足来寻求胜利。