A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.
Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.
My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.
The plants are principally kept in large pots arranged in rows along the sides of narrow paved walks, with the houses of the gardeners at the entrance through which the visitors pass to the gardens.
The Homestead plant, taken as a whole, is complete and finished in every department. There is nothing of any consequence to be desired. It is the first time I have ever been connected with any works that I could say it is finished and complete and to my entire satisfaction.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.
If a tree dies, plant another in its place.