One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

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.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

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

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

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

The department of home economics was organized to train a woman in efficiency and to develop her outlook to life. Such a department is a necessity as a means of developing a society. It stands for the evolution of women's work and place.