Laf. 2.36.4

"Everyone should leave something behind when they die," my grandfather used to say. It could be a child, a book, a painting, a built house or wall, a pair of shoes made, or even a garden planted. Something touched by your hand, serving as a place for your soul to go when you pass away; so that when people look at the tree or flower you planted, you are there.

It doesn't matter what it is, as long as you transform it into something that will change when you touch it and will resemble you when you withdraw your hands," he used to say.

"The difference between a man mowing the lawn and a gardener is the touch," he used to say. The man mowing the lawn seems to have never been there; the gardener, on the other hand, will be there for a lifetime.

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. p.184