New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
Ellen Swallow Richards...all enjoyment is dependent upon the frailty of human life and human desires ... if we were to have all we want and to live forever, all enjoyment would be gone.
Ellen Swallow RichardsFor this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.
Ellen Swallow Richards