The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

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

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

No beast has ever overcome the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.