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When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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