My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.

There is a use for almost everything.

Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.