Mission
The mission of Auckland Botanic Gardens is threefold:
- to contribute to the community's wellbeing and appreciation of plants.
- to reflect in the range of plants on display the region's benevolent climate, its diverse landscape and its ethnic mix.
- to meet the needs and interests of the community and to inspire and inform people about the importance of plants in their lives and to the environment.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Every Age has its own peculiar faith.... Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.”
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—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)