__________________________________________________________________________ < Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. > < A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair > < of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some > < way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people > < look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. > < > < It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something > < from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like > < you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man > < who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. > < The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; > < the gardener will be there a lifetime. > < Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- \ \ \ _.-'~~~~~~`-._ / || \ / || \ | || | | _______||_______ | |/ ----- \/ ----- \| / ( ) ( ) \ / \ ----- () ----- / \ / \ /||\ / \ / \ /||||\ / \ / \ /||||||\ / \ /_ \o========o/ _\ `--...__|`-._ _.-'|__...--' | `' |