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

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.

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

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

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

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.