Lawn Cutter or Garderner?

I posed the question - what is most important? - but received no responses. This may be because no reads my blog or the question seemed to vague. The reasoning for my question was to see what my generation and others consider to be the most important thing. What is important becomes your priority, what becomes your priority is what you touch and what you touch is what you sow as your legacy. 

 American novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and poet Ray Bradbury, stated“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made." Further in his statement he says "It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."
 Those of us born between between 1965 and 1979 (Generation X) are now the parent, the principal, the government official, the senior VP - by all accounts we are at the point where we are touching our legacy and it is being formed.   As indicated from Bradbury's statement we will leave something behind and at this very moment - we as parents, educators, government officials, clergy, and business persons - have the opportuntiy to  trim, plant, and sow in the lives of our children, our students, the community, and the world.

The question becomes will  our generation be known as lawn-cutters, simply cutting through life and all that we touch will be discarded as debris to be bagged up as trash or will we be known as garderners, will we have nutured, pruned, and watered through out our lives and all that we have touched becomes something that is both lasting and flourishing.