One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

  • -- Francis Cabot Lowell 弗朗西斯·卡波特·洛厄尔

一个人的一生永远不足以完成他的园艺目标。如果一个花园是一个想象的场所,我们怎么可能离开始很远呢?

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But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.

但是,这些现实很快就会显现出来。虽然我当然不是要你闭眼不看前几代人的经历,但我想建议你不要过早地照搬,不要抵制现实需要的压力。

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

经过长时间的沉思,我深信,一个有坚定目标的人必须完成它,没有什么能抗拒一种意志,这种意志一旦实现,就连生存也将受到威胁。

You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to, or you've been hurt enough that you have to.

你的改变有两个原因。要么你学到了足够多你想学的东西,要么你受了足够多的伤害你不得不学。

A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

一个花园总是一系列的失败和一些成功的对比,就像生活本身。

Too old to plant trees for my own gratification, I shall do it for my posterity.

我太老了,不能为了自己的满足而植树了,我要为我的后代而这样做。

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

改变,是最难完成的事情。