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

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.

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.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise – to begin, and to get done.

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

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.

The man who worries morning and night about the dandelions in the lawn will find great relief in loving the dandelions.

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.

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

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