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

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.

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

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.

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.

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