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.

We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Tools of many kinds and well chosen, are one of the joys of a garden.

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.

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

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.