Tools Of Many Kinds And Well Chosen,

No Beast Has Ever Overcome The Earth; And The Natural World Has Never Been Conquered By Muscular Force.

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 No Excellence Without Labor. One Cannot Dream Oneself Into Either Usefulness Or Happiness.

Yesterday The Twig Was Brown And Bare; To-day The Glint Of Green Is There; Tomorrow Will Be Leaflets Spare; I Know No Thing So Wondrous Fair, No Miracle So Strangely Rare. I Wonder What Will Next Be There!

One Must First Seek To Love Plants And Nature, And Then To Cultivate That Happy Peace Of Mind Which Is Satisfied With Little. He Will Be Happier If He Has No Rigid And Arbitrary Ideals, For Gardens Are Coquettish, Particularly With The Novice.