The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.

The only wealth is life.

There are various tough problems yet to solve, and we must shift to live, betwixt spirit and matter, such a human life as we can.

We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.