"Gardening is civil and social,
but it wants the vigor and freedom
of the forest and the outlaw."
by:
Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalist
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 -- jim k, Austin, Tx     
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    Social engineers, Utopians, and altruists all have ideas on how to arrange the garden of men, but ultimately, people do not want to be arranged, pruned, and harvested according to another man's will.
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    Well put Archer!
     -- Richard, CA     
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