"It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors…"

"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help."

"To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch, their renewal of life, this is the common…"

"Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their…"

"No man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is …"

"Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure."

"What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back,—with a hinge in it."

"Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it."

"The toad, without which no garden would be complete."

"Politics makes strange bedfellows."