To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface, it is four thousand miles deep; and that is a very handsome property.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest.

I do not know the names of all the weeds and plants, I have to do as Adam did in his garden... name things as I find them.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.