What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.
The principal value of a garden is not understood. It is not to give the possessors vegetables and fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy, and the higher virtues - hope deferred, and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation, and sometimes to alienation.
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
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