Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

  • -- Liberty Hyde Bailey 丽波提·海德·贝礼

给孩子们做花园的机会。让他们随心所欲地成长。他们为自己种植好植物比种植好植物更重要。

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I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.

我还不知道为什么植物会从地上长出来,为什么会漂浮在小溪里,为什么会爬在岩石上,为什么会从海里滚出来。我被它们的神秘所吸引,被它们的多样性所吸引。它们随处可见,却又神秘莫测。

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。

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

人们总是明白,植物和动物虽然在它们的高级代表中是完全对立的,但在它们的低级和较简单的形式中却非常接近对方。但他们被认为不会融合。

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

圣经中有一些事情,据说是由上帝明确的命令来完成的,这对人类和我们对道德正义的每一个观念都是令人震惊的。

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

菜园一开始看起来很有前途,然后渐渐地它只种蔬菜,什么也不种,除了蔬菜什么也不种。

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

硬件在最无关紧要的时候工作得最好。