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Garden quote
Does anyone know where this quote came from. I have found it on some sites but never with an author to it.
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm fairly sure that it will be a compaction of, or a paraphrase of, the sentiment/s at the end of Voltaire's 1759 novel Candide.
The young Candide lives in the little German principality of Thunder Ten Tronck, under the guidance of his tutor, Pangloss, a theorist of optimism. A liaison with his beloved Cun�gonde causes him to be exiled, and soon afterward the principality is sacked by the Bulgars, who rape Cun�gonde and leave Pangloss for dead. Candide then encounters every kind of eighteenth-century horror, from enslavement by the Turks to bondage on a French galley, and ends up on a little farm near Constantinople, wisely counselling Pangloss that the only worthwhile thing for people to do is to cultivate their gardens.
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/index.ssf?050307c rbo_books
But then again; maybe not. P.S. the book sounds a dirge but it's actually bloody funny.