And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

The true measure of our success in vegetable cultivation lies in the balance between yield and environmental stewardship.

"The truth of a story lies in what it hides, not in what it reveals."

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