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Good vines require cutting and more...
Good vines require cutting and more cutting. A mile of runners won’t give you one more grape, so get rid of branches that do not bear fruit. Do you want to keep everything? Then expect nothing. Cut. And then cut some more.
The Vinedresser’s Notebook: Spiritual Lessons in Pruning, Waiting, Harvesting & Abundance (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2014), 20–21, 70–71.