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

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 on the surface, it is four thousand miles …

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

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