"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."

Luther Burbank, American Environmentalist

Attention, Children, Jungle, Living

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"If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed."

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