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We must practice patience and fortitude, the names of the lions flanking the main library's Fifth Avenue steps.

—Constance

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Constance Casey is a former New York City Department of Parks gardener and writes the monthly "Species" column for Landscape Architecture Magazine.

Photograph of Stephen A. Schwarzman by Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images.