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One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.
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Extension work is not exhortation. Nor is it exploitation of the people, or advertising of an institution, or publicity work for securing students. It is a plain, earnest, and continuous effort to meet the needs of the people on their own farms and in the localities.
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
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A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.
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Science may eventually explain the world of How. The ultimate world of Why may remain for contemplation, philosophy, religion.
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No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
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The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.
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There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.
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I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them, and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere they are visible yet everywhere occult.
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My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
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Give the children an opportunity to make garden. Let them grow what they will. It matters less that they grow good plants than that they try for themselves.
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There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness.
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Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.
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