I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

  • -- Phyllis Theroux 就像菲利斯·索罗克斯

我想这就是园艺吸引人的地方:它是一个人在创作时最接近现实的地方。

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I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

我可以高高兴兴地靠在一扇门上,整天跟过路的人聊着风和雨。我应该在做园艺的时候,却做了大量的门控工作;我没有锄地,而是靠在门上,盯着菜地沉思。

In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

在当今世界,在我们这个时代,我们感到人类历史上前所未有的苦难、痛苦、肉体和灵魂的折磨。

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

因为在人类变化和进步的伟大空间里,有一段短暂的时间,某些人类的普遍目标在他身上得到了令人满意的体现。

There was a train that would come by our house every night, and I'd hear the whistle blow. That is the sweetest memory I have.

每天晚上都有一列火车经过我家,我听到汽笛声。那是我最美好的回忆。

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

神不存在于偶像中。你的感觉就是你的上帝。灵魂是你的圣殿。

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

从事园艺工作的人所需要的是一个有铰链的铸铁背。