Every true lover knows that the moment of greatest satisfaction comes when ecstasy is long over and he beholds before him the flower which has blossomed beneath his touch.
Don Juan DeMarco

The gardener knows his job is to tend to the toil and dirty work and help the seedlings grow into flower and fruit. No matter that the fruit will grace the table of another and he gets not one sweet bite.  The gardener’s job is to prepare and maintain the space to grow and bloom. His satisfaction comes in knowing others have been fed by what he’s made it a daily spiritual practice to provide and tend, and it is his supreme honor to do so.