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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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