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

One does not begin to make a garden until he wants a garden. To want a garden is to be interested in plants, in the winds and rains, in birds and insects, in the warm-smelling earth.

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.

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.

The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

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.