Wayne Winterrowd Quotes

It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

Wayne Winterrowd

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• It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.

  

  Wayne Winterrowd
  • Children
  • Happens
  • Given