The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and …

Margaret Fuller
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The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs. ✨ Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters, p.384, Rowman & Littlefield
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