The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

  • -- Alfred Austin 阿菲德·奥斯丁

园艺的光荣:手在泥土里,头在阳光下,心与自然同在。培育一个花园,不仅要靠身体,还要靠灵魂。

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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。

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

地位不会给你带来任何好处。只有一颗开放的心,才能让你平等地漂浮在每个人之间。

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong.

总有一天我们会明白,当头脑完全错误时,心永远不会完全正确。

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。