Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.

There is great satisfaction in a well-made clean tool that does its work well.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.

Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must draw our inspiration from the future.