"No occupation is so delightful to me..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.”

“It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.”

“The uniform tenor of a man's life furnishes better evidence of what he has said or done on any particular occasion than the word of any enemy.”

“Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.”

“I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.”

“In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.”

“Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor.They do not speak a good word for her. Most cry better than they speak, and you can get more nature out of them by pinching than by addressing them. The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. Better that the primrose by the river's brim be a yellow primrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less.”

“The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature).”

“When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?”