Joe Bennett

" At this time of the year it is important to rake up leaves. If you leave them lying around, nature will rot them down into something useful. Since gardening is the art of messing nature around, that obviously will not do.
Today saw a man attacking a pile of leaves with a thing that looked like an elephant's head with an engine [...]. It was perhaps the most useless machine I have seen; and as soon as I saw it, I wanted one."

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