I occasionally run into quotes that have some value or insight to them. Please post your favorites as they pertain to gardening etc.
Here's one that I have seen for years:
"A community without fruit trees, though they would flourish there, indicates lazy or ignorant inhabitants unworthy of respect."
-- Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeld, 1788 (Liberal Arts Professor)
Plumfun,
I can’t think of a quote right off, at least accurately, but my response to yours is how sad it’s been to see communities in which fruit trees were planted but neglected and their fruit going to waste.
There’s a ‘town place’ I walked by all summer that had a continuously ripening set of ‘parking strip’ fruit trees totally going to waste. Once caught admiring them, a neighbor came out when he recognized me.. He’d taken the local Master Gardener’s pruning class I’d led, specifically to prune his neighbor’s trees – now breaking down with fruit and going to waste.
The neighbor said the previous owners had planted them but the new owners have no idea how to care for them, thus the massive waste - a large old house on a corner lot with approximately a dozen fruit trees that were definitely planted and originally cared for by a knowledgeable person. They had all the best stuff – from Persian mulberries to persimmons -- pollinators, too! …but the waste was hard to take.
A community I can’t get out of my head has been Klamath Falls… I was down there four years ago, during the three hottest days of the year, and was so impressed with the multitude of fruit trees! Apparently their water table is quite high and personal irrigation wells appeared common. But everyone seemed to cherish their fruit trees as they were obviously cared for and admired. The Gravenstein apples were just coming on.. as I plucked one while looking over a home for sale …with several fruit trees (and around a third the cost of a comparable place in my hometown, Portland ..but don’t tell).
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
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"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do."
Coach John Wooden.
"If I plant one more plant in this yard, something is going to fall off the edge."
I don't know who coined that but I say it all the time and it depresses me.
...workin toward this one: “tho’ an old man, I am but a young gardener” Thomas Jefferson, Aug 20th, 1811 ~
On August 20, 1811 Thomas Jefferson wrote to Charles Willson Peale, “I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position & calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. “no occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, & no culture comparable to that of the garden. such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, & instead of one harvest a continued one thro’ the year. under a total want of demand except for our family table I am still devoted to the garden. but tho’ an old man, I am but a young gardener.”
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