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Chapter 661 Preface to Chapter 7 "The Garden Behind the Door"
The Garden Behind the Gate - A Gardening Handbook Designed For Gate City Residents
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Noldo Greenleaf
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前言
Although I am connected to thousands of worlds, ideas, and civilizations, I still hold this idea stubbornly but humbly: where there is soil, plants can grow and multiply.This is the belief that we can settle down in the complexity of the infinite world.The plants are all interesting.A man can be a gardener when he chooses to plant in a particular place, and if conditions do not allow him to make a decision, he can also adopt those plants that the environment supports around him.By making good use of them, He can still be a gardener.

Therefore, everyone, every kind of life, everywhere can have their own garden.Even if there were no gardens in this great and finely woven city, there was always a porch, a plot, and a window.As long as there is light, plants can grow.This is the saying I used to hear from my mother and the woods when I was young, that a plant in a clay pot may be worth more to some people than grass and flowers on thirty feet of ground.

The satisfaction that a garden brings to people does not depend on where it is built, nor does it depend on how expensive it is to build, or whether the plants in the garden are magical, poisonous, curative, or valuable.It all depends on people's state of mind.A person must first know how to love plants and nature, and then he can develop that kind of mentality of going with the situation and gain peace and harmony from plants.

In most cases, gardening is complicated. Even in this golden city of Shuttle, there are still "sunny" and "rainy".If a person is not too rigid and arbitrary, his life will be much easier and happier.For novices, especially to maintain peace of mind.He should be pleased if the plants under his care grow well; and he should be pleased if the plants that grow well are not from his hand, but simply because they are free-growing plants.

People often covet what they cannot have.But if a man can learn to love plants that grow naturally, he will be happier.Aren't the heath ponchos and willows that roam free at the Spire of Thorau more pleasing and displaying than the faceless mandrakes in a occultist's garden? The essence of plants?A venerable Leprechaun elder who troubled day and night with dandelions on his lawn would have been relieved if he could have fallen in love with dandelions.Though ubiquitous, dandelion tidbits are worth more than gold coins because they bloom at the time of growth and invite insects to play freely.Children love dandelions. They would rather run on the golden road of the city of a thousand gates than hold on to the golden buds of dandelions. Why can't we?Love what is near you, and love passionately.If I were asked to write a proverb at the gate of my garden, I would choose a proverb that has been passed down in our nation for thousands of years: There are so many things I don't want in this world!
I honestly believe that the above passage is more valuable than all the planting advice that I'm going to have in my next voluminous book, though I have dutifully gleaned it from some venerable and long-forgotten authors.Happiness lies in the qualities of people, not in the qualities of plants and gardens.And that joy of anticipation while writing is probably why there are so many gardening books.But even if all the books of the past are forgotten, that won't stop others from starting another conversation with the dirt, another adventure.

I hope that everyone who reads this book will create a garden, or try to do so.But if only barnyards grow where you want to grow five-petaled golden roses, I must advise the reader to start with singing grass or goldenrod weeping branches.Step by step, don't waste it, don't be swallowed by quick success.This book will suit everyone - for the experienced gardener, it's a repetition of what he knows, and if you're a novice, it's more than enough, whether you're learning to grow laughing radishes or onions.

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