Last week my wife attended a Bahá’í workshop on racism held at the Little Chapel of all Nations on the University of Arizona campus, and when the day ended, everyone said “Let’s go to the Abdu’l-Báhá garden”. We didn’t know of any such location on campus, but they went, and she took a picture which explains why they called it that:
Officially this is the Underwood Family Sonoran Landscape Laboratory at the UA College of Architecture, Planning, & Landscape Architecture.
Inscribed on the steps in the picture is this 1921 quote from ‘Abdu’l-Báhá:
At the gate of the garden some stand and look within, but do not care to enter. Others step inside, behold its beauty, but do not penetrate far. Still others encircle this garden, inhaling the fragrance of the flowers; and having enjoyed its full beauty, pass out again by the same gate. But there are always some who enter, and becoming intoxicated with the splendor of what they behold, remain for life to tend the garden.
To actually try to read the quote, view the fullsized 18mb image. Even then it’s a little hard to make out.
(the quote is what we call a pilgrim’s note, not authenticated, and the wording varies a little in some sources. But it’s essentially the parable of the sower and the seed.)