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from "Miss Perspicacia Tick" contains these words:

not that it bothers me, why should gardening - and the appreciation
for the natural world that accompanies it - be the preserve of the more
mature?

I think it comes down to patience and vision. When you're a kid, a week
seems like a lifetime and you can't maintain your interest/excitement in
anything for that long. That's why kids start with cress and beansprouts
where the results are almost instantaneous.

As you grow up you start to see how a bit of investment up front can reap
rewards later. When a child looks at a patch of weeds, he/she sees the mess
that it is. Once grown up they can see the garden it could become and that
long-term gain outweighs the short-term effort of clearing it.

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Martin & Anna Sykes
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