A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. -
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. -
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness it teaches industry and thrift above all it teaches entire trust. -
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. -
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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- A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.