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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.