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

"A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything a…"

"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."