The fact is that the system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.
– W. Edwards Deming
Gardeners tend to be an interesting mix of idealism and pragmatism.
They set about to grow things – vegetables, spring flowers, long-lived trees. They believe with all their hearts that what they do in their garden will result in what they can later see in the garden. This is their idealism at work.