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mind you, but born a living thing. It is a way of salvation 

 that will not be lost, and that all will travel. 



" We have found the land, and we are going back to possess 

 it. Take a man out of the street and put him in a garden, 

 and you have made a new creature of him. I have seen the 

 miracle again and again. I know a bus conductor, for example, 

 outwardly the most ordinary of his kind. But one night I 

 mentioned allotments, touched the key of his soul, and 

 discovered that this man was going about his daily work 

 irradiated by the thought of his garden triumphs. He had 

 got a new purpose in life. He had got the spirit of the 

 earth in his bones. It is not only the humanizing influence 

 of the garden, it is its democratizing influence too. 



' When Adam delved and Eve span 

 Where was then the gentleman ? ' 



You can get on terms with the lowliest if you will discuss 

 gardens." 



