Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, the power to do it is strong.
He even knew the reason why: because enough men had gone off to war saying the time for gardening was when the war was over; whereas there must be men to stay behind and keep gardening alive, or at least the idea of gardening; because once that cord was broken, the earth would grow hard and forget her children. That was why.