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

  • -- Charles Dudley Warner 查尔斯·沃纳

从事园艺工作的人所需要的是一个有铰链的铸铁背。

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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。

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

如果你为你内在的人类需求创作音乐,那么你也为所有需要同样东西的人类创作音乐。你用这些情感的深刻表达丰富了人性。

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

种植自己的花园,装饰自己的灵魂,而不是等待别人给你送花。

It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.

这是一个非常缓慢的过程——前进两步,后退一步——但我正在朝着正确的方向一点点前进。

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

一个疯狂而敏锐的摄影师需要走到外面的世界去工作,犯错误。

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

种族隔离在公共教育中又死灰复燃。